Shared ethnography. Reflections on fieldwork with the Makuna in the Columbian Amazon region

Abstract

Having reflected on the various stages of my fieldwork among and with the Makuna, I propose that the best way to conduct anthropological research is to base it on shared ethnography. By this, I mean a convergence of interests and a broadening of mutual knowledge where the indigenous subjects and the researcher establish a dialogue of permanent feedback, which favours intelligibility between different worlds.