Abstract

CAVIEDES, Mauricio. Methodologies that shame us: A proposed twin-track research and its ephemeral influence on anthropology. univ.humanist. [online]. 2013, n.75, pp.37-61. ISSN 0120-4807.

This article discusses the experience of Victor Daniel Bonilla and Luis Guillermo Vaco, two social scientists in Colombia who, during the 1970s and 1980s created a proposal for ethnographic work in conjunction with the indigenous movements in Colombia, from their work in the Committee of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples (Comité de solidaridad con los pueblos indígenas). The text proposes an explanation to the question of why this proposal was rejected and was not developped in the exercise of the anthropological subsequent generations. I affirm in this article that the proposal of this group of researchers requires of joint political construction spaces between the academic researchers and the social organizations when their society projects converge, but this requires a prior debate. The collaborative research can not exist if there are no articulation spaces that have been built along the path of social organizations, nor can be forced to exist outside of them.

Keywords : History of anthropology; Anthropology in Latin America; Indigenous movements; Ethnography; Social research; Ethnology; Community development - research; Indigenous Colombia - History; Ethnocentrism; Etnografia; Pesquisa social; Antropologia; Desenvolvimento comunitário - pesquisa; Indígena da Colômbia - História; O etnocentrismo.

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