An anthropologist in the community. Shared diagnoses, processes, sustainability and other narratives

Abstract

The ethnographic method can provide great depth in terms of meanings and positions when it is immersed in other social research methodologies that are also immersed in community processes of social transformation. This work aims to carry out a comparison between shared diagnoses developed through dialogue and mutual listening in different community contexts. Concepts such as community or diagnosis are involved in this purpose, as well as the enrichment of references and perspectives produced by linking ethnographic processes with the improvement of the social realities into which we enter as researchers. However, this applied framework is not exempt from challenges and difficulties that allow us to delve our analysis into key issues for the full development of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the management of local diversity in the 21st century, and especially, in the centrality or marginality that said diversity can occupy in the collective elaboration of shared diagnoses, and from these, in social transformation. With the introduction of the anthropological perspective in these processes, non-explicit questions also arise that invite us to formulate new questions and itineraries.