“What Is an Anthropologist Doing Here?” Reflections About Bonds, Fieldwork, and Anthropology of Law from an Authoritarian Context
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Estat: | Versión publicada |
| Data de publicació: | 2026 |
| Descripció: | 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. |
| Pais: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/11322 |
| Accés en línia: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ranuario/article/view/11322 |
| Paraula clau: | field work anthropology justice Central America authoritarianism trabajo de campo antropología justicia Centroamérica autoritarismo |