Abstract

TORRE, Renée de la. Theoretical-methodological itineraries of a transnational ethnography. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2018, vol.12, n.24, pp.17-50. ISSN 2007-8110.  https://doi.org/10.28965/2018-024-02.

This article proposes a methodology for the ethnographic study of processes and networks that transnationalize religious traditions. The proposal arises from the systematization of the experience of a research project on transnationalization of African-American and Indo-American religions in which multisite and collaborative ethnographies were carried out to study networks and transnational circuits. A theoretical discussion is proposed on the relevance of the study of trans-nationalization and not of globalization, which addresses three phases of the process: 1) The de-localisation (and / or de-territorialization) of cultures; 2) Trans-localization or trans-territorialization; 3) re-location or re-territorialization. Another contribution is to conceptualize about the analysis units that were used to implement the network study model, namely: nodal agents and axis agents, nodal sites and nodal events.

Keywords : multilocal ethnography; networks; transnational; Native American traditions; methodology.