Ángel Palerm’s Articulation of Fieldwork, Theory and Training: Transferring Lessons from Mexico to Spain

Abstract

This article is about the influence in Spain of Ãngel Palerm’s contributions regarding the fieldwork as part of anthropological training. I describe how I came to this approach, first in Spain as an undergraduate student of anthropology and later in Mexico as a postgraduate and predoctoral scholar. Back to Spain, as a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, I organized the Seminar of Anthropological Research, carrying out research projects and fieldwork practices in which recent graduates and undergraduates participated. The guidelines described above were applied and developed, giving rise to a habit of joining training and research, theory and fieldwork that lasts to the present.