Lo uno y lo múltiple : una autoetnografía en un centro para refugiados en el sureste de Italia.

Abstract

This text was written by an anthropology student in 2005, based on notes written by the student herself five years earlier. It shows the stress produced by the requirement to write something with academic value to be accepted as anthropology, while at the same time, the obligation to say things that others have already said in order to be accepted as valid is questioned. From my experience as a volunteer in a center for refugees in the southeast of Italy in 2000, I take multiculturalism, the encounter of different cultures in the same space as an excuse using autoethnography and also the concept of the one and the multiple.

Keywords:

autoetnografía

lo uno y lo múltiple

multiculturalidad

autoethnography

the one and the multiple

multiculturalism