Abstract
As a contribution to reflections on the elaboration of an enactive ethnography, this articlequestions the place and role of standard ethnographic methods in the Course-of-Action ResearchProgramme (CARP). It points out both the compatibilities and the theoretical differences betweenthe ontology which presides over field surveys and that which underpins the research carriedout within the CARP framework. Using illustrations drawn from empirical research, it attemptsto specify the ways in which it appears possible to work on the basis of the construction andanalysis of psycho-phenomenological and/or ethnographic data. Overall, this text aims atproposing means that have been developed, or are being developed, by researchers interested in ensuring the primacy of the activity. It argues that ideally these means consist of a dialecticbetween intrinsic and extrinsic data that are concerned with the intrinsic.