Ethnography and journalism : Transdisciplinary uses and borders

This article reflects on the amphibious and transdisciplinary ways of doing anthropology and journalism. Based on a qualitative, reflexive and inductive methodology that draws from fieldwork experiences in the Mexican southwest and from the review of journalistic and ethnographic works, the article...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Giménez Delgado, Inés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad ORT Uruguay
Repositorio:RAD
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:rad.ort.edu.uy:20.500.11968/4810
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/inmediaciones-de-la-comunicacion/article/view/3324
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/4810
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Antropología
periodismo
transdisciplina
testimonio
cuerpo
violencia
anthropology
journalism
transdiscipline
testimony
body
violence
antropologia
jornalismo
testemunho
corpo
violência
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Sumario:This article reflects on the amphibious and transdisciplinary ways of doing anthropology and journalism. Based on a qualitative, reflexive and inductive methodology that draws from fieldwork experiences in the Mexican southwest and from the review of journalistic and ethnographic works, the article analyses the meeting points and the differences between both disciplines in an era influenced by hybridization, transmutation, and hyperspecialization of the fields of knowledge. Likewise, it reflects on the transformative power of transdisciplinary studies in situations of armed conflict and extreme violence, where the testimony and the experience of the body as a witness need other disciplines –between literature and the pure sciences– to strengthen the locus of enunciation. Finally, it explores whether the hybrid uses made of journalistic-anthropological narration have generated polyphonic discourses that, from their trans condition, allow overcoming the hyper-presentism that traps a good part of journalism and bridge the temporal distance of the colonial matrix from which anthropology historically constructed its object of study.