Abstract

BALBI, Fernando Alberto. The dynamic integration of the native perspectives in ethnographic research. Intersecciones antropol. [online]. 2012, vol.13, n.2, pp.485-499. ISSN 1850-373X.

This paper intends to contribute to the development of a proper understanding of the nature of ethnographic research in social and cultural anthropology. To this end, we will undertake a critical review of its characterizations as an attempt to describe the social world from the actors' point of view and as an enterprise founded in the development of a dialogue between the theories sustained by the natives and by the ethnographer. Drawing on the analysis of several classics of ethnographic literature, we will suggest that ethnography is characterized by a form of dynamic integration of the native perspectives into the description, and that this procedure operates as the research's driving force and as one of the central requirements that ethnographic texts must satisfy.

Keywords : Ethnography; Social and cultural anthropology; Native Perspectives.

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