In this short film, Charles Gardou, anthropologist and university professor, looks back on various scientific encounters (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Murphy, etc.) that marked his career, shaped his thinking and led him to take an interest in anthropology of disability situations.

It explains the place of the latter in the landscape of French research and how it brings together work on the interpretations, uses of disability and its resonances on a human group, in a place, a time, a society, a culture. Charles Gardou also discusses the ethnographic fields and the interdisciplinary scientific collaborations which, over the years, have led him to develop an anthropology of the very close (disability by those who experience it), an anthropology of fragilities (when vulnerability becomes strength ), a cultural anthropology (disability in our cultural imagination), an anthropology of knowledge (from obscurantism to New Lights on disability) and a social anthropology (inclusive society and the challenges of the inclusive movement). His various anthropological commitments have led him to consider disability as a “singular-universal” and to favor singularity in connection with other singularities that are part of the universal.