passer des regards croisés aux regards partagés

English translation: go from being an outsider looking in to an insider engaging in reciprocal observation

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French term or phrase:passer des regards croisés aux regards partagés
English translation:go from being an outsider looking in to an insider engaging in reciprocal observation
Entered by: Alanna Wilson-Duff

13:18 Jul 19, 2007
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Anthropology
French term or phrase: passer des regards croisés aux regards partagés
Meme paragraph, plus loin...


L’anthropologue ne doit pas essayer de
s’échapper mais au contraire assumer son statut de
« voyant-visible », selon l’expression de Merleau-
Ponty. Il faut chercher à passer des regards croisés
aux regards partagés, ce qui constitue une rupture
fondamentale par rapport aux conceptions positivistes
fondées sur la récolte de données par un obser-
Les apports de l’anthropologie visuelle à l’étude des comportements de consommation 65
vateur absolu et extérieur au phénomène étudié
Alanna Wilson-Duff
Local time: 07:30
go from being an outsider looking in to an insider engaging in reciprocal observation
Explanation:

go from being an external observer to an observer belonging to the group

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Note added at 6 hrs (2007-07-19 19:32:16 GMT)
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a few good phrases:

Merleau-Ponty fights the Cartesian model of vision where individuals see the world from an external vantage point, or "God's eye" view and stresses that we as human beings are not dis-embodied eyes looking down upon the world. We are embodied. Therefore, in order to see, we must be in our bodies, in the world. If we are embodied in a shared world, we can be also be seen by those we see.

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Merleau-Ponty identifies the fundamental "reversibility" in vision: the observer is both subject and object, the seeing and the seen.
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Merleau-Ponty's contribution was to tighten the concept of dasein through an .... We are both observer and what is observed at the same time. ...

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observer and observed are coupled
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Merleau-Ponty writes of the implication of the seer in the visible, and of the shared participation of the subject and the object in a visibility of everything.

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veratek
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Local time: 18:30
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Great resources! Thanks, Vera-tech; you've actually killed two birds with one stone. I'll be able to close both questions now.
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Summary of answers provided
3to move from complementary to shared observations
katsy
2 +1to bridge the gap between observation and shared insights
suezen
3to go from exchanging looks to sharing visions
Emma Paulay
3go from being an outsider looking in to an insider engaging in reciprocal observation
veratek


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to move from complementary to shared observations


Explanation:
This is what I would understand - 'regards croisés' being two different angles of observation converging on sth, and 'regards partagés'... well, shared, coming from the same angle...
just a thought

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-07-19 15:44:15 GMT)
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In the light of your note, Alanna, how about sth like -
"to move from each observing the other to both observing (the world) together...."
... this of course in the hope that each/other/both will be clearly identifiable by the reader...

katsy
Local time: 23:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to bridge the gap between observation and shared insights


Explanation:
or to move on from observation to shared insights ...
something along these lines perhaps

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-07-19 14:50:54 GMT)
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my understanding is that 'regards croisés' is the way the observer and the observed see each other but it's a one-way situation with the observer simply collecting information and data. The 'regards partagés' means that they have moved on to a situation of shared, in-depth understanding which means the observer also becomes the observed to a certain extent.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-07-19 15:50:49 GMT)
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further to your note:
to move on from reciprocal observation to shared insights/ a shared perspecive

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-07-19 15:51:56 GMT)
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sorry ... perspective

suezen
Local time: 23:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  katsy: Yeah, suezen, I think yours is better than mine! :-)
1 hr
  -> hi Katsy ... let's say it was a joint effort :-)
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
to go from exchanging looks to sharing visions


Explanation:
or "from exchanged looks to shared visions". I'm trying to get it as neat as the FR.

Emma Paulay
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
go from being an outsider looking in to an insider engaging in reciprocal observation


Explanation:

go from being an external observer to an observer belonging to the group

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Note added at 6 hrs (2007-07-19 19:32:16 GMT)
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a few good phrases:

Merleau-Ponty fights the Cartesian model of vision where individuals see the world from an external vantage point, or "God's eye" view and stresses that we as human beings are not dis-embodied eyes looking down upon the world. We are embodied. Therefore, in order to see, we must be in our bodies, in the world. If we are embodied in a shared world, we can be also be seen by those we see.

******
Merleau-Ponty identifies the fundamental "reversibility" in vision: the observer is both subject and object, the seeing and the seen.
******

Merleau-Ponty's contribution was to tighten the concept of dasein through an .... We are both observer and what is observed at the same time. ...

****
observer and observed are coupled
*****

Merleau-Ponty writes of the implication of the seer in the visible, and of the shared participation of the subject and the object in a visibility of everything.



veratek
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