Doing Research in an Enchanted World: Lessons from Indigenous Methodologies

Based on prolonged apprenticeship with the indigenous Gente de Centro from Colombian Amazonia, this article discusses their research methodologies and the that the modern disenchanted method, with its semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and data collection design, is inadequate to account for a world in which to watch over the effects of knowledge means assuming responsibility towards the world that the act of knowing produces or could produce. In doing so, they underline the inseparability of epistemological, ethical, and political dimensions of research. indigenous cultural and political struggles and remain a credible approach to technique, and let itself be occupied by the cognitive practices of others.