O OFÍCIO DO ANTROPÓLOGO: etnografia em contexto de perícia (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to study the anthropological and ethnographic work when applied to the context of technical anthropological reports. On discussing the complexity of fieldwork and ethnography on these situations, I seek to offer a broader view of the ways we interpret the technical reports, as well as the social anthropology field itself. I seek to highlight how the variability of the etnographic contexts presented defy any attempt of simple deductive operation using as reference the quilombola category. I start from the premise about the existence of a creative dialogue between empirical cases, official classificatory operations and the anthropological categories. The legal apparatus that dictates the quilombolas’ question works as a fundamental framework of the identitary production of these social groups, not being present, however, as a sole feature. In this sense, there are different frameworks that dialogue with the historicities of the groups and that produ...

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