Lire l’utopie dans L’Ethnologue et le Sage de Sami Tchak

This article proposes to examine in the light of The Ethnologist and the Sage by Sami Tchack the inscription of utopia as a quest and as a critical consciousness. It highlights the utopian approach of a French ethnologist haunted by the search for the universal subject. Concerned more by the banality of cultural acts than by the historical depth of beings, the scientist will learn from this experience that utopia can hardly sublimate history.