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The first part shows how social work substitutes anthropological knowledge and how this experience encouraged training in anthropology. Next, the discussion focuses on the character of Villavicencio's fieldwork as a technology of knowledge built upon practitioners' social experience following a series of protocols of scientific objectivity together with a research agenda. Keywords: Ecuador, Anthropology, women anthropologists, field work, development. El programa asumió la importante tarea de adiestrar a jóvenes profesionales para la extensión agropecuaria, la economía agrícola, la educación fundamental, la antropología y el trabajo social.