Abstract

CHAVEZ GONZALEZ, Nicole. The ‘Bricoleur’ Kaleidoscope in Collaborative Ethnographies. The Case of Afro-Andean Cruz de Mayo, Azapa Valley, Chile. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2022, n.43, pp.51-66.  Epub Mar 02, 2022. ISSN 1794-2489.

This article addresses the onset of the bricoleur notion and its implications in qualitative social research, specifically in collaborative ethnographies, by adding new tools, disciplines, and representation techniques|. In this article, a journey through anthropology as a discipline is taken on to find a turning point between bricolage and collaborative/participatory methodologies, between the theoretical and the empirical. In order to do that, I present the decisions and methodological strategies developed in my Master’s thesis, as an example. Those included the production of my “own writings” and participatory photographs, developed by Afro-descendant, Aymara, and Afro-Andean participants, from the valleys of Azapa, Arica, Chile. Lastly, I show that the ethnographic process also needs an ongoing exercise of self-reflexivity and questioning, so that we are able to leave colonialism and extractivism behind, and can negotiate a collective action commitment.

Keywords : Collaborative ethnography; bricoleur; Cross of May; Afro-Andean; Arica.

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