Ethnography as a tool in social intervention projects for development
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.15622Keywords:
Ethnography, applied research, development.Abstract
This paper proposes a reflection on the interest to joint applied research (specifically interventions for development) with academic research. For this purpose we use a specific case that combined both, using ethnography as an intervention tool and as an assessment tool of that intervention. This example aims to show how, conducting ethnography in development interventions can be of great help while, at the same time, it is a privileged stage for the anthropology of development and for analyzing and evaluating interventions from within. It is also an invitation to reflect on the significance of anthropologists participating in intervention projects and the implications this has on the reason to be for a discipline that, since its origins in Colombia, has been committed to practice, ethnic groups and social movements.
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