ethnography

Epistemological Foundations of a Research on Food Sovereignty and Security in the Municipalities of Fomeque and Fosca, Colombia

Uva Falla Ramírez, Sandra del Pilar Gómez Contreras, Juan Guillermo Velázquez Arias, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Spatial imaginaries and the politics of scale in Colombia

Alba Griffin, Nick Morgan, Newcastle University

Ethnography and Conceptual Production: From Dense Description to Singular Theorizing. A Conversation with Rodrigo Parrini

Rodrigo Parrini y Eduardo Restrepo

Dynamizing the Notion of Nomadism. Theoretical and Ethnographic Notes on an Unrecognized Territorial Model

Leticia Katzer, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-Conicet, Argentina

Ethnographic Research and Publication of Data in Open Access: Methodological and Ethical Issues

Ana Silva y Agustina Girado, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires / Conicet, Argentina

Ethnography, Biopolitics, and Coloniality. Genealogies of Urban Precariousness in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region

Silvia Grinberg, Conicet / Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina

Evil Eye in Classical Ethnography and Post-Modern Clean-Up. A Comment on L. G. Vasco’s Anthropology

Franz Flórez, Universidad Central y Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Performative Theories of Identity and the Performativity of Theories

Claudia Briones cbriones@filo.uba.ar CONICET/Universidad de Buenos Aires Abstract: This article aims to review some knowledge derived from performative theories of identity to reflect on the performativity of the theories. Even though it is vital to critically examine the capacity of agency and materiality that carries scientific discourse – a discourse authorized by excellence, especially when […]

Clifford Geertz and the Assembly of a Critical Anthropological Project

Carlos del Cairo delcairo@email.arizona.edu University of Arizona, USA Jefferson Jaramillo Marín jefferson.jaramillo@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: Beginning in the mid-1960s, anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) transformed the conventions of writing ethnography. His anthropological project, named symbolic, hermeneutic or interpretative anthropology, was in continuous flux as he elaborated it. According to some, the Geertzian intellectual project was […]

Analytics of the modern: An introduction

Jonathan Xavier Inda jxinda@illinois.edu University of Illinois Abstract: This text posits the relevance of addressing modernity as an ethnographic object, that is, to examine it from situated discourses and practices. Such an ethnography draws on a Foucaultian approach with governmentality as a key category. From this perspective, an approach is put forward examining three analytical […]

Doing Ethnographical Studies over Records on Past Social Facts. Rebuilding Monsignor Pablo Cabrera’s Academic and Religious Trajectory through the Records of the City of Cordoba

Mariela Eleonora Zabala mariela_eleonora@yahoo.com.ar Museo de Antropología FFyH-UNC, Argentina Abstract: Historically, anthropology has been considered a discipline dealing with illiterate peoples far away from the researcher’s place of residence. Also, it is a field where both the inquirer and the inquired were contemporary. Even though there were and are anthropologists who have used historic written […]

Horizons of ethnographic reflection. Insights and strains for anthropological studies in Chile

Noelia Carrasco Henríquez noeliacarrasco@udec.cl Universidad de Concepción, Chile Abstract: An ethnographic approach to private economic sector in a country like Chile could appear obvious for anthropological work. In fact, this is the country that served as a laboratory for designing and testing neoliberal theses, which are the ones critically and massively blamed to “govern world”. Likewise, […]

From the ethnographic to the theological-political: Ecumenical research-action by La Rosca among protestant communities in Córdoba, Colombia

Alfredo Ignacio Poggi, Georgetown University