Discussing anthropological knowledge construction processes entails reflecting upon different connected dimensions.Epistemological and theoretical-methodological positionings with different political consequences are intertwined.In addition, institutional Handcuffs conditions and the socio-historical context in which certain local and global disciplinary trends are inscribed must be taken into account.This paper looks into the processes of socio-anthropological research I have participated in over the last decades with schools, teachers, teacher unions, indigenous peoples and groups in conditions of structural poverty.I will particularly focus on the modalities of ethnographic co-research that we have implemented in several projects.
I will attempt to show some of the theoretical-methodological potentialities that ethnography contributes to group/collective processes of research as well as limits Mouthpiece in its development.Finally, I will mention some of the contemporary challenges anthropological knowledge faces in present Latin America.