Jeanne Favret-Saada's tool box

Abstract

Jeanne Favret-Saada builds an entirely new methodological plan in anthropology, which we recognize in the folds of her texts various lines of creation and different tool-ideas that can be experimented with by other practitioners of research in anthropology. As a toolbox, her texts offer, more than points of support, derivation and fluctuation lines that point paths to ethnographic creation.

The idea of ​​translating these three articles by Jeanne Favret-Saada emerged from our common understanding of the importance of her way of doing and conceiving the anthropology that the author propagated in the discipline and that fertilized our respective works. Our proposal to bring these three texts to the readers of Cadernos de Campo was born out of a desire that her work – profoundly original and provocative – would be better known to the Brazilian public.

The articles are more recent elaborations in which the author takes up three moments of her work: ethnographic research on witchcraft, research with press material on religious public polemics and research in the archives of the Catholic Church. In the transitions of the intellectual issues of each article, we can see the tools created by Jeanne Favret-Saada.