Cuerpos y espacios plurales: Sobre la razón espacial de la práctica etnográfica

Abstract

In this paper a key dialectical link between space, body, and ethnography is proposed, mainly within the context of Latin American anthropology. I emphasize the Argentine case through the analysis of my own field experience among the Qom or Toba people of the Chaco region. The idea suggested here is that the constitution of anthropological places is related with a political economy of academia which is influenced in turn by the geopolitical location of each anthropological tradition. The interplay between space, body, and ethnography shapes not only the conceptual bodies of anthropology but also the ethnographers own regime of materiality. The latter displace and open themselves to the world according to the contingencies of both their academic and field backgrounds.