Crises (como) metodo(lógicas) na antropologia:

reflexões sobre e a partir da cisgeneridade

Abstract

Science is permeated by difficulties and crises, whether infield research or on theoretical-methodological reflexions, that instead of showing impossibilities, foster scientific theories. As a discipline, Anthropology has lived with crises for a long time, especially of authority, object and representation, that some authors consider that precisely because it is in a perpetual crisis, it constitutes itself as critical and undisciplined. With the idea that crises and difficulties can generate methodological and reflexive impulses, in the first part of the article I discuss writing strategies from three classical ethnographies and three more recent, and in the second part I analyze a seminar organized and taught by travestis and transsexuals, in which tensions were demarcated between them and cis researchers. In the end, it is considered that even though there isn't a ready-made recipe on how to handle methodological crises, anthropological and trans-activist productions can contribute to such crises generating reflexive impulses.