The multimedia restitution of research. Beyond the linearity of the written text

Abstract

In recent decades, the issue of the restitution of research results by anthropologists has gained increasing interest; this interest has been accompanied by a transition from a conception of ethnographic practise as an objectifying activity of an observational and experimental nature, aimed primarily at the collection of data, comparison and the construction of general theories, to a presentation as a hermeneutic, dialogic, reflexive and critical enterprise, aimed in an ethical and political sense at a deep understanding and valorisation of the experiences of specific and unique human encounters that have taken place in the field