Le film de recherche comme modalité de production d’un discours scientifique en anthropologie de la santé
Abstract
As part of a socio-anthropological study on the use of pharmaceutical drugs among polymedicated elderly patients in Switzerland, an anthropologist and a filmmaker are making a research film. The main issue raised is the question of the scientific status that can be attributed to research films. This process initiates a reflexive thought process around the various epistemological, technical and deontological challenges encountered. It also questions the contribution that the production of a research film can bring to the anthropological field. The introduction of audiovisual data adds density and textures that cannot appear in a text and gives the actors of the study an opportunity to develop a new storytelling process that highlights their expertise. This is of particular interest in the context of anthropological analysis, which is shaped, during fieldwork, by mobilizing the ethnographic intuition and imagination of the researcher and opens up an exchange between peers.
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