Sociologie et anthropologie dans les universités camerounaises: réelle collaboration ou «cohabitation des braves»?
Sociology and anthropology in Cameroonian universities: real collaboration or “cohabitation of the brave”?

Summary/Abstract: Sociology and anthropology are sister disciplines and as such naturally collaborate in the vast universe of the Social Sciences. On the other hand, the contemporary scientific context promotes the decompartmentalization of knowledge for an interdisciplinarity conducive to an improvement in scientific productivity. It is in this context that we note that in Cameroonian universities in the French speaking zone, the two disciplines which interest this article are almost automatically brought together in the same department. The cohabitation administratively imposed on teaching staff and other members of these neighbor branches generates tacit rivalries, friction, frustrations, reactions to the disparities observed which lead to desires for autonomy on the part of those who constitute the injured party, namely the anthropologists. These have resulted in separation projects in some of these departments which have already led to the breakup of three of these departments and the creation in their place of separate departments of sociology and anthropology. The data collected through interviews, participant observation and documentary contributions made it possible to establish the reality of deleterious climates in the sociology and anthropology departments of universities in Cameroon.

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