1 The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity Daniel Lema Vidal Accepted Manuscript. Final Published PDF available at SAGE JOURNALS - Philosophy of the Social Sciences: https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931231208730 Abstract This article further systematizes the existential body, contributing to the ethnographic model of embodied objectivity. It situates embodiment as the foundation of knowledge, demonstrating its underdevelopment in anthropological literature. The paper explores the philosophical relationship between being-in-the-world and Merleau-Ponty’s body-proper, emphasizing the central role of embodied pre-objective signification in representational ethnographic knowing. This aspect is often insufficiently addressed, particularly in light of certain ethnographic applications of the epoché. The paper concludes that, given the oscillatory apprehension of embodiment, the use of terms like ‘systematizing’ and ‘inter-objectivity’ adequately enhances its portrayal as a pre-objective phenomenon rather than an objective one. Keywords ethnographic model of objectivity, embodiment, representation, existential anthropological phenomenology, ontological turn, epoché