“We don’t discuss family. When the family falls apart, the house falls into ruin. » A Portuguese proverb that I might have come across while reading An anthropologist in my family which appears at Buchet Chastel.
Work concocted by the anthropologist Elsa Ramos who, on almost 300 pages, creates a toolbox for you to write your family novel in almost six months. How to carry out the investigation in which your grandparents are the heroes? On what themes? Around what objects? With what technique to free speech?
Very questions In G majorhence the card sent to Elsa Ramos, lecturer in sociology, whose research focuses on family, youth and migration. Work that seeks to grasp the place of the individual caught between his autonomy and his belonging. A guest who can say about herself and undoubtedly her origins: fado is everything I can’t say.
