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BARGO, María. Is it possible to ethnograph Opus Dei? Academic requirements for the study of repugnant others. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.3, pp.193-202. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v15.n3.38122.

Abstract This paper refers to the approach of “repugnant others” (Harding, 1991) from anthropology and the implications that its study has among colleagues. It also analyzes the anthropology of elites, focusing on the specificities, challenges, and difficulties that studying this implies. The ethnographic perspective in these cases usually contains a moralization requirement, denunciation, and suspicion towards these others (Dullo, 2016). The paper briefly explains the case study for developing the problem by dialoguing with the mentioned bibliography. I will present a specific event in which the lack of explicit criticism about Opus Dei was an inhibition from publishing part of my Ph.D. research due to an accusation of proselytism and my alleged membership in the group.

Keywords : Repugnant others; Ethnography; Elites; Opus Dei; Suspicion.

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