ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we discuss relationships between researchers and local people along interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies that we carry out in fishing villages in Brazil, focused on ethnobiology and intercultural education. In order to discuss these relationships, we use an intercultural approach as a theoretical lens that allows us to deal with encounters and misencounters in the cultural contact zone between researchers and local people. We discuss language and other aspects in these encounters and misencounters from a first-person perspective, as researchers engaged with the local communities. We also consider challenges of doing situated research in an intercultural context with a transnational team.
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