Hacia un relato polifónico: experiencias de campo en la Ciudad de La Plata

Abstract

If, as Herzfeld (1987) sustains anthropology is the practice of a theory, the practice of the discipline is learned on the fieldwork. To learn to distinguish, to watch, to listen, to know when to interrupt, and to register. In this article we discuss the construction of a collaborative knowledge trying to tear down those ingrained myths of the anthropologist / genius in solitude, isolation and exoticism, starting from a training practice on field work in the city of La Plata, Argentina. From a polyphonic narrative, according to the development of the investigation, we share some reflections on this initiation rite in the profession of the anthropologist and the avatars of writing. Highlighting the tension between the individual and the group, what we understand constitutes, in its dialogic, the core of the construction of collaborative knowledge.