Le cru et le déni

Abstract

By means of an alternative form of writing to the scientific article—tale—I aim to transform the emotions and feelings felt during an ethnographic fieldwork that did not go well with my privileged interlocutor into a double moral, which refers to a double scientific questioning. On the one hand, this concerns trust within the interlocutor-ethnographer relationship, which is specific to the practice and production of scientific data in anthropology, and on the other hand, it concerns the recognition of differentiated charisma of the faqīr ascetic and the pīr spiritual master within the Qalandarī Sufi order. The narrative is preceded by an explanatory note presenting my approach and my choice to make this literary style an alternative to scholarly writing