Observación participante y distancia antropológica
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https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.1999.v54.i2.414Abstract
The article is an attempt to establish the characteristics of participant observation. For that purpose, a critical essay on a text published in 1994 is taken as the main line of the exposition. That text upholds the thesis that the emblematic method of social anthropology is inappropiate for the study of complex societies. In order to rebut this thesis, the ostensible conditions of participant observation are analysed. This article also provides a terminological distinction between the different concepts of distance that anthropologists consider. Subsequentlly, it is shown how methodological and epistemological problems, which are usually attributed to ethnography and participant observation, do not necessarily derive from them. In fact, such problems stem from theoretical presuppositions that are explicitly and implicitly used by ethnographers during their research.
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