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The objective of this paper is to discuss and argue about the relevance of conducting bioethical research in loco, in the territory or, more precisely, in the daily life. This practice, common in the social sciences, implies the need to insert the researcher in the context of people's lives, sharing norms and expectations in the flow of daily events. It is a practice that is ethically and politically committed to the context with which it is intended to deal with and, consequently, that it becomes a benefit for the people participating in the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the author's reflections about her own research experiences, considering that an anthropologist is defined by the fields she / he constructs and is constructed by. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on the establishment of the scientific field of Food and Culture in Brazil, guided by Bourdieu's concepts. We describe the science park corresponding to this field, its geographical and institutional distribution, its insertion in the fields of knowledge, the issues investigated, the qualifications of the researchers, their academic programs and its links with post-graduate studies, their societies and scientific organizations are more specific objectives of this paper. Three areas of social science world are analyzed: "Sociology and Anthropology," "Health" and "Food and Nutrition" which is incorporated into the habitus of its main agent, the researcher of the Health Sciences, reflections, potential and methodological resources from the Social Sciences and Humanities. A woven web of meanings in this meeting place of different knowledge is marked by hegemonic biomedical viewpoint, resents and demands a stronger field of concepts and methods capable of dealing with the complexity of reality and the problems beyond laboratory benchs in life in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]