Political and affective grounds of ethnography in various spaces and forms of political engagement

Abstract

The article addresses issues concerning the anthropological study of politics and political processes by means of two investigations, both focusing on the study of political engagement. The first is a ten-year investigation which examines the work of Peronist politicians and militants; and the second is a current research project on the political commitments of the Basque-Argentine community in Buenos Aires. By comparing the two bodies of research, our aim is to make a conceptual contribution by using the anthropological notion of value as an approach to distinguish the importance of theoretical matters within what tends to be lumped together as methodological issues.