This article discusses the relationship between ethnography and witchcraft in Jeanne Favret-Saada's Les mots, la mort, les sorts (Deadly words). Its first aim is to present the main themes and concepts proposed by the author's description of witchcraft. As such, its purpose is to offer a commentary on the book by drawing attention to the various possibilities that it provides for an 'anthropology of witchcraft'. Among these, the article highlights the author's use of what we could call a 'procedure of equivalence' or 'principle of symmetry', namely the mode through which ethnography and witchcraft, when located on the same 'plane of immanence', can describe each other in a reciprocal relationship of transformation.
anthropology; ethnography; Jeanne Favret-Saada; witchcraft