ABSTRACT
The search for the right question ends up with lots of suggestions and hypotheses and leads the farmers to a genuine sociological exercise. They analyse the contrasts of different systems of farming and the different ways people have of organizing themselves with their animals, each of these different systems demanding, according to them, a different question. The fact that scientists refer to their colleagues by citing their names, while witnesses are all interrogated anonymously, is just one of the many ways of noting this asymmetry of expertise and of the possibility of being authorized to think. The authors of theories, endowed with names, are cited; opinion-holders are interchangeable and listed. But the fact of having a name or not, being the creator of thought or of theories, or the simple representative of an opinion, is but the symptom of a more general situation characterizing certain habitual practices.
