Abstract

ESPINOSA, Nicolás. An ethnography of violence in daily life. Methodological aspects of a case study. univ.humanist. [online]. 2009, n.67, pp.105-125. ISSN 0120-4807.

This paper is compiling some of the main methodological axes around which a research on political violence incidence on daily life of peasants in the Macarena sierra, located in Colombian Western Amazonia. This text aims to bring some elements to the methodological debate addressed by several anthropology works made in local contexts affected by political violence. Written as a research report, this paper presents several results of our work, the analysis framework used and the main features defining ethnographical practice.

Keywords : political violence; armed conflict; FARC; ethnography.

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