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GUEVARA SANCHEZ, Brenda Griselda. They told me they saw you. Rumor, fear and history in fieldwork. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.27, n.79, pp.257-274.  Epub 21-Mayo-2021. ISSN 2448-8488.

In this paper I reflect on the risky situations that conditioned my field work in an indigenous community located in the Purépecha Plateau of the state of Michoacán (Mexico), and on the possibilities of telling what “really happened” in the history of that community; the political need to establish the truth became an element of dispute among some of the community members, thus placing me in conflictive situations. The concerns that I express in this article are endogenous, that is, the problem is ascertained through anthropology itself.

For this reason, I categorize communication in three concepts: rumor, history and fear. The general questions are: What are the channels that the community members were looking for so as to have Their narrative heard, displaced, validated and turned into truth, by engaging in actions that could endanger the ethnographer himself? What is the configuration of the place from where the discourse on the past is authorized and thus embodied in the production of history?

Palabras llave : Rumor; history; fear; narrative and truth.

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