My aim with this article is to present briefly the ob­jectives, methodology, theoretical assumptions and contributions of the research named Mujeres caribenas de diversos origenes etnicos en la construccion de procesos economicos alternativos: identificacion y estudios de caso (1990-2014) (Caribbean Women from Diverse Ethni­cal Origins in the Construction of Alternative Economic Processes: Identification and Case Studies (1990-2014) by means of the particular explanation about how processes identification, characterization and cases documentation were done. I also pretend to give rise to a reflection on the construction of autochthonous methodological pro­posals and on the political character of inquiries com­ing from the daily job of social researchers. All of this is referred to the frame issued from the fieldwork carried out in San Andres Island and in some areas in the South Caribbean Autonomic Region in Nicaragua.