Ethnographier les chasseurs ardennais : Appréhensions, émotions et malentendus

Is an ethnography among people to whom the researcher does not feel any spontaneous sympathy possible ? In this article, I come back to the apprehensions which have been an important feature of my beginning into the field of hunting and the negotiation of my place among the hunters. I aim to show how anxieties, negative assumptions, emotions encountered in the field and the management of misunderstandings played an important part in the progressive construction of a productive relationship with the hunters.