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VIRGINIA SAENZ, M. T.. A world with a Science made of disciplines -The complications in the work of the researchers -. Textos Antropológicos [online]. 2019, vol.20, n.1, pp. 61-78. ISSN 1025-3181.

Those ofus who dedicate our lives to Anthropology, we believe we understand what it means, what is it that it pretends to understand, how and, furthermore, we believe we understand why. This is an epistemological pro-blem. Ifwe do not visualize the exercise ofgoing beyond the immediate, the empiric phenomena and put into practice the critical analysis in order to learn and understand ^“with rational precision (both logically and lin-guistically) and explain it with scientific validity (both experimentally andpractically)", we will not have gone farfrom wrongly acquired knowledge and simple common sense (García 1997:43). Anthropology elaborates and describes its object ofstudy by means of scientific investigation, utilising parameters that help in determining the validity and depth ofthe argument. They comefrom the social structure where the research is going to take place, from the academic context, from the local scientific paradigm, andfrom the dominant philosophy. These components are at the basis ofthe first epistemological elements that may become problems, because they mark Anthropology as a scientific discipline. They also mark its relationship with other disciplines and its way ofun-derstanding multidisciplinaritywhich, altogether, giveform to what we call Science. Its basic principles state that knowledge should be a tool that helps us in the intervention and transformation ofreality in order to bring it into further development, and to surpass Theory to reach the Practice with the help of appropriate decisions that help us in constructing by modifyingfor the benefit of everyone.

Palabras llave : anthropology; epistemological problems; multidisciplinarity; Science; knowledge.