moving intervensions

so i am starting fieldwork and i am trying to catch up with field notes. this is bein a bit hard with this modality of being both in my "porteño life" and in the field, ie i do not have quite nights r dead moments as much as i do have when i remove myself form the ordinary and travel to meet friends i work with. anyways it is hard to make the thick descriptions and also get to the point of puting down my ideas, i guess i will leav the separation. also for confidentiality, no personal references will be made here. i am also finding hard to keep my idea of making all field note in english. so thick description will be in spanish and in notebook.

anyway i am also having two levels of notes, one of the "neighbourhood" which still has a resemblance to a "field site" other for moments which are not claerly my topic and then maybe this blog. anyways two things are jumping with stregth, the place i chose to work is not just a little bit saturated but just overloaded of poeple doing things. form anthropologists, to aid association, the church, and documentalist. the other day i was chatting about my intentions and the verb people used was "participar". so ok that is my entry with some poeple, one more person going there to intervene in some way and that will eventually give things in return. The question is of course how much i will harass them and how to avoid proposing things that they will accept only out of politness.

but then i am starting a tour around all this institutions that have worked in here and maybe my focus is that intersection. they no doubt are some of the material means for movement and trigger it. i can´t stop thinking that they probably get tired, so if i was sharing the feeling of overwhelming political patronage in the province, maybe here the "accompaning" agents are the burden. (i use, and many of us use this word, just as ngos have pressed with fire the word "participation" and "representation" in a way i can´t belive, all words used for a perfomance of involvment in a movement, but ooo i am more and more convinced that politics is so much somewhere else). so i am thinking about including all this agents, including "us" the anthropologists in the ethnography. there is something impressive that trasverses and produces some type of subjectivity about our love for the chaco.

so circulating objects seem to be central here too, in one day i have noticed that handicrafts flow constantly and smoothly.