From the fundamental to the oriented: 20 years of the Research Group in Fundamental and Oriented Anthropology (GRAFO)

Abstract

Some years ago, while I was studying for a degree in Social Anthropology at a university in northern Chile, we were entrusted with the reading of an article that reflected on the implications of anthropological work in the human relationships of study groups. Her author, Teresa San Román, reviewed the importance of the fundamental commitment of field work in situ in which the researcher could approach the everyday and often invisible issues of culture. Since this knowledge (the author reflected) could eventually affect the study groups themselves, it was necessary to guide the knowledge acquired to improve their situation. An influence that Teresa, not only through her printed reflections but this time sitting next to me, begins to remember with Aurelio Díaz and Aurora González, the three founders of the Research Group in Fonamental and Oriented Anthropology (GRAFO), a SGR consolidated and recognized by the AQU. Some of these conversations took place in the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of GRAFO in some corners of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UAB. Many of the ideas that I present in this tribute are based in these conversations.

Keywords

• grafo
• homenaje
• aniversario
• antropología fundamentada
• antropología orientada