Los confines de la impostura.Reflexiones sobre el trabajo etnográficoentre minorías religiosas [The Boundaries of Imposture.Reflections on Ethnographic Work Among Religious Minorities]

Cantón-Delgado, Manuela (2008) Los confines de la impostura.Reflexiones sobre el trabajo etnográficoentre minorías religiosas [The Boundaries of Imposture.Reflections on Ethnographic Work Among Religious Minorities]. Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, 63 (1). pp. 147-172. ISSN 0034-7981

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Abstract

En este texto se discute el reconocimiento de la subjetividad como tarea puesta alservicio del ideal de asepsia científica. Quienes postulan que la interferencia causada porel impacto del factor idiosincrásico sobre el ideal de objetividad puede ser conjuradamediante técnicas de confesión y autocontrol aprueban, más allá de la improbable efi-cacia de tales medidas, el reconocimiento de la objetividad como meta última de la ac-tividad antropológica. En la etnografía con religiones, la sospecha de doble dirección,entre investigadores e investigados, se cuela por todas las rendijas del trabajo; impregnade incertidumbres las relaciones con nuestros informantes, con nuestros propios cole-gas; está presente en las lecturas que hacemos, los textos que escribimos y las clavescon las que interpretamos. Condiciona, en suma, la producción de conocimiento de prin-cipio a fin, y nos lleva a preguntarnos por el sentido de aquel ideal, cuando lo que amenudo está en juego son los límites mismos de la impostura. The author discusses the admission of subjectivity as a task in the service of the ideal of scientific a sepsis. Those who argue that the interference caused by the impact of the idiosyncratic factor on the objectivity ideal can be eliminated by techniques of confession and self —control approve of, beyond the unlikely efficiency of such measures, the acknowledgement of objectivity as the ultimate goal of anthropological practice. In the ethnography of religions, the two— way suspicion between the researchers and the re-searched permeates into all aspects of the inquiry; fills with uncertainties the relationships with our informants and with our colleagues; and is present in our readings, in the texts we write and in the keys with which we interpret; in sum, conditions the production of knowledge from beginning to end, and takes us to ask ourselves for the meaning of that ideal at times when the very boundaries of imposture are often at stake.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Europe, Spain, Religion, Rationality, Objectivity, Ethnography, Reflexivity, evangelical, protestant, pentecostal
Subjects:	G Christian Traditions/ Denominations > Protestants B Mission Theology/Theory > Contextualization/Inculturation B Mission Theology/Theory > Conversion B Mission Theology/Theory > Identity Issues B Mission Theology/Theory > Holistic Mission B Mission Theology/Theory > Human Development H Social Sciences and Roma Christianity > Anthropology G Christian Traditions/ Denominations > Evangelicals G Christian Traditions/ Denominations > Pentecostal
Divisions:	Spain
Depositing User:	Jelena Bakic
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2023 09:28
Last Modified:	03 Apr 2023 09:28
URI:	https://rocprints.rockcentre.org/id/eprint/600

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