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This essay reflects on the positional position of the researcher between scientific authority and the State when selecting a topic; in this case, before a research process that aims to contribute to the re-vitalization of the historical and biocultural memory of the Bokota people. It presents some background and critically questions the selection of the research topic, and tries to show that the researcher chooses the subject, but the subject also chooses it, if a permanent critical questioning is maintained.