The ethical principles of methodologies in linguistic field work according to who

This article seeks to establish a dialogue between the methodological proposals that have been put forward for linguistic fieldwork and the growing experiences of indigenous linguists. It is well known that the theorizing of the methodologies that dictate linguists' interactions in the community of study is carried out from a perspective foreign to both the language and the community. These methodologies are designed for and guided by non-indigenous academics, and predominantly academics from different countries than those of the language and its speakers. This paper exposes that the challenges faced by insider and insider-outsider linguists are not the same challenges faced by outsider linguists. Thus, this text contributes to the review of the universality of ethical methodological principles of fieldwork behavior in contemporary linguistics, and promotes an Indigenous local perspective that implies the decolonization of fieldwork methodologies designed by and for foreigners and uncritically adopted by insider and insider-outsider linguists.