Nuestra ciudad, nuestra cultura, nosotros mismos

Abstract

This paper is a discussion about the possibility of making anthropology in a city of the size of México city. The main question is weather the anthropologist has the resources for such approach, and whether or not we are able, with such resources, to refer to the city as a whole. Reviewing the concepts used by modern authors in urban anthropology, it ends up going for a more conventional ethnographic research.