Anthropological Consultations for Educational Projects

Between the Indigenous Leading Role and the Public Policies Ideal

Abstract

What are Indians looking for by resorting to the help of consultants, if one is to consider that they are political actors within a contemporary stage?
Would it be a kind of political support to face an inhospitable environment, such as universities sometimes seem to be? If this is the case, researchers involved in consulting activities would agree to accept the role of supporting political actors? What would they then do? Would they rise to the daily tasks that the political actors, the Indians, expect them to perform? Supposing they do so, what is left for critical reflections? Would consulting practice be something of the past, as advanced by a colleague, and soon would the Indians no longer need counsel, at least in the anthropological field of education?