Construction of anthropological knowledge and ethnographic co-research. Problems and challenges

Construction of anthropological knowledge and ethnographic co-research. Problems and challenges

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Discussing anthropological knowledge construction processes entails reflecting upon different connected dimensions.Epistemological and theoretical-methodological positionings with different political consequences are intertwined.In addition, institutional conditions and the socio-historical context in which certain local and global disciplinary trends are inscribed must be taken into Kone Kettle account.

This paper looks into the processes of socio-anthropological research I have participated in over the last decades with schools, teachers, teacher unions, indigenous peoples and groups in conditions of structural Recycling Bins poverty.I will particularly focus on the modalities of ethnographic co-research that we have implemented in several projects.I will attempt to show some of the theoretical-methodological potentialities that ethnography contributes to group/collective processes of research as well as limits in its development.

Finally, I will mention some of the contemporary challenges anthropological knowledge faces in present Latin America.