FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: THE AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE

Autoethnography, as a methodological tool and epistemological perspective, transforms our situated experiences during our fieldwork into sources of knowledge. This opens up a range of possibilities in the construction of knowledge far from a single notion of Science, in capital letters, built on the basis of supposed neutrality, objectivity and impartiality. In this sense, and from her research work, the author presents autoethnography as a practice of resistance to an androcentric and positivist academy. To this end, after a journey through her own ethnographic silences, she shares with us the meaning that the adoption of this perspective has had in different research works directed by her. Subsequently, she brings us three works framed by feminist anthropology in Spain, considering them pioneers in the opening of this path. She ends her text by questioning the incorporation of this perspective in the interdisciplinary field of gender studies, which is also inhabited by feminist anthropologists.