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Throughout his different attempts Deligny never ceased outwitting the function of education. He preferred the verb “to permit,” an infinitive allowing him to sidestep the majority posture expected from one who knows the model and its failures. By his tracing of maps among other things, he replaces the gaze that sees nothing but sad deficiencies in these others (autistic children, psychotics, madmen, etc.) with a gaze that could encounter the force and singularity of different relations to the world. How does this position upset the way that anthropologists address themselves to others and establish the relations between heterogeneous worlds? To what extent could these experiments among the singular inhabitants of the Cevennes constitute an antidote to the standardization that too often speaks, sees and feels in the anthropologists? Practical and political questions brought up to date by the phrase “nearby stranger.”..