This is Not an Autoethnography
The present paper draws from ethnographic research I developed in my master's and doctoral studies, among what I titled "kin-interlocutors". When participating in the process of attempts to publish in academic journals a question always emerged when I received the reviews of my pieces...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) |
| Repository: | Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/46479 |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/46479 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Antropologia Etnografia Autoetnografia Metodologia anthropology; ethnography autoethnography methodology antropología etnografía autoetnografía metodología |
| Summary: | The present paper draws from ethnographic research I developed in my master's and doctoral studies, among what I titled "kin-interlocutors". When participating in the process of attempts to publish in academic journals a question always emerged when I received the reviews of my pieces. I was questioned about doing an autoethnography and criticized for not dialoguingwith authors in the field. But how could I be doing an autoethnography if at no point did I claim to be in dialogue with the field? How was I inscribed ina territory that I (after reading so much) claimed was not mine? How were I and my research, therefore, being inscribed in a field that we did not aim for? This article intends to discuss how the inscription of certain bodies in certain places is part of the academic paternalism towards some anthropologists (mainly black and indigenous). |
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