Thinking about field research from ibero-america: 4 lines and 4 paradoxes

Abstract

The author discusses the paradoxical place of ethnographic fieldwork and of the location of anthropological knowledge in a discipline self-defined as universal and devoted to study the social-cultural diversity of Humanity. By means of her own academic trajectory in sev-eral stances of her ethnographic practice, Guber shows how fieldwork struggles to make its way amidst the written reflections on how we do anthropology away of metropolitan set-tings.