The fieldwork as process. "Collaborative ethnography" as analytical approach

This paper contains a series of reflections elaborated when putting in dialogue field experiences in two differentiated research contexts: one of them, with Huarpe people in Northeast Mendoza, and the other with Qom people. These reflections try to contribute to denaturalize and make visible the complexity of interaction contexts, considering that they embrace different dimensions and aspects -such as the speakers' position in the social structure, individual expectations, experiences and previous relationships of the subjects, and material and symbolic resources in intermediation-, emphasizing therefore the situational and dynamic character of those interlocution relationships. In the light of the current debates of the cultural critique and in an effort to contribute to the studies of the Collaborative Ethnography, the aim of this article is to show and comparatively describe what we understand as field performances, the object of analysis being the ethnographic experience itself. Understanding the ethnographic work as process and text, we identify three big critical knots assembled in three ethnographic scenes, which we analyze as a multi-sited network of mediations and interrelationships.