Antropología, violencias y trabajo de campo. El giro de las etnografías en un México en crisis

The objective of this article is to analyze the changes that have occurred in ethnographic fieldwork as a result of the multiple forms of violence that have increased and expanded in Mexico in the last twenty years. With the use of diverse documentary and theoretical sourc-es, the author combines his experience as a graduate thesis director to trace an autoethnographic reflection that leads him to question the role of ethnographers in the face of the whole situation. The article offers, in this sense, a balance of the affectations to ethnographic fieldwork in the context of violence as well as the strat-egies elaborated to face it. Given that it is not possible to cancel fieldwork and that it is fundamental to docu-ment what is happening, the article ends by proposing to strengthen collective work and collaboration in the field, promoting creativity and self-care.