ABSTRACT
The overall book conclusion has a triple mandate. On a methodological level, it points out the unique assets and challenges of walking together as a research method. On a theoretical level, these findings are linked with epistemological claims about the conditions of shared action. The conclusion also offers an outlook about how empirical data can help refine the philosophical frameworks of shared agency. Revisiting and interlinking methodological, empirical, and epistemological challenges, overarching conclusions are drawn about the status of walking together as a research program. In this framework, walking together will crystalize as uniquely suited to bringing out the participatory nature of anthropological learning that consists, fundamentally, in the shared experience of difference. The result will be a refined conception of shared agency that is both philosophically informed and empirically underpinned.
