Paper short abstract

This paper suggests methodological reconfiguration during the execution of ethnographic fieldwork. Advocates greater openness of the researcher to be affected by the field.

Paper long abstract

It refers to reflections produced after conducting fieldwork about Portuguese student manifestations that happened between 2012 and 2013. It suggests a revision and reconstruction of methodological preconceptions while performing fieldwork in anthropology. It produces theoretical review regarding research and activism in contemporary anthropology as utters dialogue with that was observed on the fieldwork.