La autoetnografía y la perspectiva indígena en la antropología americana

Abstract

While  Americanist  anthropology  has  changed since its beginnings, it retains in some form the Eurocentric gaze that has accompanied it throughout its history. It is only with the emergence of indigenous voices  in  the  political  arena  and  more  recently in the academy that this tendency is starting to be reversed. This co-authored article presents autoethnography not only as  a  methodological  resource  but  also  as  an  intellectual  tool,  as  one  of  the  ways  to  contribute  to  the  decolonization  of  the discipline, together with more recent paradigms, particularly those generated by Amerindian ethnology. Autoethnography goes   beyond   ethnographic   data   and   narratives   of   experience,   seeking   to   resituate  diverse  ways  of  thinking  about  and  experiencing  the  world  at  the  heart  of anthropological theory.