Resumen de Ethnographies on the limit. Ethnographic versatility and short-circuits before contemporary violence
Francisco José Ferrándiz Martín
This article seeks to contribute to the debate on the challenges the anthropology of violence poses to contemporary anthropology. Due to its special thematic, theoretical and methodological difficulties, the anthropology of violence can be considered a frontier territory in the discipline, where agreed ways of going about ethnography are being constantly questioned. The theoretical frameworks available turn out in many cases to be insufficient, the research strategies established must be subjected to substantial adjustments, the rhetoric used to express our analysis needs to be particularly self-reflexive, and the knowledge generated must be returned to society in more effective ways, ranging from the usual channels of publication and distribution to other, more flexible, �rapid response� formats. Overall discussion of the general characteristics of the anthropology of violence is followed by an example: the research the author has been carrying out since 2003 into exhumations of Civil War mass graves in contemporary Spain.
