Abstract

ARELLANO, Diana. El señor de los mangos: O las antípodas morales del etnógrafo. Avá [online]. 2009, n.15, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-1694.

When Social Anthropology addresses the topic of Estate's Violence, generally the respondents are victims of such violence. Usually, the researchers and the scientific community shared an ethical position against the violation of human rights  and therefore one of the main problems in this situation is to learn how to listen to the suffering with enough emotional distance. In this article I propose to analyze ethnographic interview protocols, when such emphatic relation is not present, when the respondent is an 'other moral being' (e.g one of perpetrators of Estate's Violence) who seeks the ethnographer and makes him to face the narrative of such violence.

Keywords : Holistic understanding; Ethnography interview; Empathy; Otherness.

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