From Engagement to Disengagement
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https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v8i1.9559Keywords:
engajamento, desprendimento, pesquisa etnográfica, auto-etnografias.Abstract
Indigenous peoples in Brazil, as elsewhere, increasingly take stock of the abuses perpetrated by certain scientific researchers who act as though indigenous spaces were no man’s land. Reactions on the part of the Indians have affected a number of, especially young, ethnographers. This situation deserves our attention with regard to the future of traditional ethnography. At the same time, a growing number of Indians have access to higher education, which opens the horizon for the establishment of auto-ethnographies, namely, research carried out by those who have been the "objects" of ethnographic inquiry. If this trend is confirmed, what will happen to academic ethnography? It is suggested that a number of possible roles can be opened for non-indigenous ethnographers who might become supporting actors in ethnographic research. In such new scenarios academic ethnographers could continue to exercise their commitment both to indigenous peoples and to the anthropological profession.
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