In our mind, the field research has three phases, (to take a place there, to observe and to describe). In the experience of the anthropologist, nevertheless, such phases became tasks (to walk, to see and to write) developed at the same time. To stay in a field, to observe it and its description are three flows associate by reciprocity, interdependence and mutual influences and separate by the contradictions and different disposals and abilities necessary to achieve them. This arrangement composes a complex background, a context from what arises the status of the observer and the meaning of the observed universe. All around the scene are so tied to the observer that the ethnography only can be an account of a passage. Data and information on the observed society must be organized in the text throughout a spine, the passage of the ethnographer. Only this agglutinant line of the empiric data can be meaningful. In this sense the ethnography is the story of a conflicting experience of an observer, step to understand what occurs in the context.
etnography; to observe; to stay; to write