An Ethnologist at the Mandarom: Maurice Duval on the Pressures of Studying a Group France Had Already Judged
A condensed reading of Un ethnologue au Mandarom: the only French ethnologist to have lived inside the group recounts the CNRS letter warning that his relativism might banalise it, a journal's demand that he not say the rumour was unfounded and that he audit the group's finances, a university refusing his colloquium, and what he actually found on the accusations of confined children, drugs and rape.