“What Is an Anthropologist Doing Here?” Reflections About Bonds, Fieldwork, and Anthropology of Law from an Authoritarian Context

 

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Συγγραφέας: Alpízar Lobo, Natasha
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2026
Περιγραφή:In this article I reflect on the construction of bounds in ethnographic fieldwork from the anthropology of law. Based on my doctoral research in El Salvador and Costa Rica, the close interaction with two juvenile criminal judges and the courts where they work, I argue the relevance of the bounds not only as a methodological strategy to carry out ethnographic fieldwork in a context marked by an authoritarian turn in the Central American region, the weakening of the judicial institution and juvenile criminal justice, but as a way of generating knowledge through the very process of building bounds. In this regard, paying attention to this process meant to make evident forms of socialization, affectivities, practices and political commitments necessary for the daily work within the judicial institution currently.
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UCR
Ίδρυμα:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/11322
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ranuario/article/view/11322
Λέξη-Κλειδί :field work
anthropology
justice
Central America
authoritarianism
trabajo de campo
antropología
justicia
Centroamérica
autoritarismo