Suffering, pain, and silence in fieldwork in Latin American urban-marginal contexts

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https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v25.10005

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Sexual violence. Implied ethnography. Pain. Suffering. Silencing

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This article focuses on reflecting on the sexual and gender-based violence suffered by women anthropologists in fieldwork, as well as on the impact that these produce on the process of ethnographic construction and on the development of academic production and life. We start from the concept of "ethnographic violence" to reflect on the authors' own and other people's pain, experienced in Latin American marginal urban contexts. Taking as examples the events of extreme violence suffered by one of them, a rape and an attempted murder, we reflect on the repercussions at a personal level when it comes to giving continuity to the fieldwork, in relation to the transformation of the links with the informants, the silencing and concealment of these facts in academic production.

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2025-10-17

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Monograph: Ethnographic Violence

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Larrea-Killinger, C., & Garcia, L. (2025). Suffering, pain, and silence in fieldwork in Latin American urban-marginal contexts. Antropología Experimental, 25, Texto 4: 41-53. https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v25.10005

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