La autonomía etnográfica. El trabajo de campo de los antropólogos sociales argentinos entre 1965 y 1975

An anthropology of anthropology urges us to apply anthropological notions to our own discipline. This would help us understand those logics underlying a universal science, and the ways in which anthropologists create the very social world they analyze, while being created by it. Here I analyze what Argentine social anthropologists used as a basic resource to lay an autonomous disciplinary and political space vis-à-vis official academia and revolutionary vanguards. My claim is that a crucial aspect of this autonomy laid on arguments derived from the practical logic of fieldwork, conceived of, in the early 70’s, as a methodological resource in the production of academic, political and social knowledge.