Tradición oral e investigación. Reestudio de un trabajo de campo

Abstract

The importance of the position of the writer/researcher has been discussed many times in Social Sciences, from Lévi-Strauss in Le pensée sauvage or Anthropologie Structurale, to James Clifford in Writing Cultures. This discussion responds to diverse epistemological doubts which appear from the real fact of the subjective observation (dynamic movements of the observer and the observed, displacements...), and the necessity of clarifying the process of "translation": some actors from a culture are investigated by researchers which are from other cultures, besides, their thoughts are translated to the language of certain disciplines. Thus, the "ethnographic authority" is another subject of discussion. All these matters, very common in Anthropology, are not so current in Ethnomusicology at the present time, and they are specially urgent when we try to examine from a diachronic perspective different researches about traditional musics.