What is the importance of the construction of the text in the elaboration of information obtained in fíeldwork? The analysls of problems of the epistemological sense of anthropological work has grown during recent years due to questions on the textual strategies and institutional condltions by which knowledge is organized and communicated. This article will complement the discussion and these aspects carried out by posmodern anthropologists of the Unites States with the socio-Institutional criticism developed by Pierre Bourdieu and will examine the meaning of such approaches in relation to the conditions of anthropological work in Latin America.