This article intended to suggest some analytical keys to think the complex and dynamicrelationships around the production of ethnographies and ethnographic analysis from andabout the global South. Throughout the text, we explore this relationship, which - despitethe existence of a broad swathe of social sectors that are thinking about what it meansto generate knowledge from and for the global South in line with their own realities - hashitherto been relatively underexplored by the Colombian academy. This brief text also servesas analytical gloss, for articles that are part of the monographic volume about the topic.