A disputa política pelo reconhecimento das necessidades. Contribuições da perspectiva antropológica para seu estudo

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to think over the way in which anthropologists make anthropology in our societies, in particular in the public policies field, departing from an empirical reserch carried out with beneficiaries of assistencial social programs. I focus here on the challenges we face when our reserch problems are related with the political dynamics which includes us as participant subjects. I am interested on the transposition of the qualitative method employed by the anthropologist with societies different from its own, to the one in which the anthropologist is a social subject who shares a significant matrix in some way common with the “natives”. It is in this sense that I propose to consider the emic/etic perspective for the study of social politics argueing that it can become a contribution from our discipline to the understanding) of political dynamics.