The plan, the scenarios and the ethnographic staging. A conversation with Joanne Rappaport and César Abadía

El plano, los escenarios y la puesta en escena etnográfica. Una conversación con Joanne Rappaport y César Abadía

With the exception of Joanne Rappaport, the other participants in the following conversation (including Cesar Abadía) started our academic life in latitudes outside of anthropology. But that is where we are. We agreed in 2008 in the Master of Anthropology of the National University of Colombia, where the concerns with which we arrived at it found not only form but also path. This conversation was the excuse to deepen considerations about the work that we were carrying out as a degree project and in discussions on topics that some subjects raised us. Ethnography, as the central axis of the anthropological task with which we find ourselves, was far from the traditional research techniques that focus on observation exercises and interview designs. There was something else.