This article reports an investigation career that began in the 1960s, in four Latin American countries. As well as recalling the difficulties and barriers faced by a anthropologist in the pre-movement period contemporary feminist aims to make a subjective assessment of research, topics and methodological and analytical paradigms of the changes in the field in anthropology. At the end, the model is assessed. Eduardo Viveiros proposed by Eduardo Viveiros and pointed out its limitations in emphasising male activities and metaphors of cannibalism, predation and violence in his ontology. The application of this model in the ethnology of in many research, lowland tends to ignore the gender perspective, the diversity and cultural specificity of the groups and the possibility of an agency of actors in favour of a general and ahistorical interpretation.