Identifications, Cultures, and "Groupness": Reflecting on Culture from Ethnographic Research in Argentina
- Autores
- Balerdi, Soledad
- Año de publicación
- 2015
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- This paper reflects on the precautions to be taken into account when addressing the study, from the point of view of the social sciences, of cultures and communities. This is done through ethnographic research in a neighbourhood (barrio) of migrants from an indigenous community in the province of Chaco, in northern Argentina, who have migrated to the city of La Plata (in Buenos Aires province) and have settled on its periphery. The article starts from the idea that ethnicity comes into play, situationally, as a resource rather than as a distinct and immutable feature. Even when it is necessary to describe how notions like culture and ethnicity act in practice and what meaning they have for the actors, social researchers should not historicize them in the specific contexts in which they are brought into play.
Cet article met en évidence les précautions et les enjeux à prendre en considération en sciences sociales lorsque l'on aborde les questions culturelles dans les communautés. Cet article met en évidence un travail de terrain de type ethnographique dans un quartier (barrio) de La Plata (province de Buenor Aires) où se trouve une forte concentration de population migrante d'autochtones en provenance de la province de Chaco, dans le nord de l'Argentine. Plutôt que d'approcher l'ethnicité dans une perspective essentialiste et d'en faire une caractéristique immuable de l'identité, cet article s'inspire d'une approche relationnelle. Plutôt que de tenter de figer le sens de notions telles "ethnicité" ou "culture", cet article met en evidence l'importance de reconstruire le sens de ces notions à partir des données contextuelles et du sens qu'elles revêtent pour les acteurs.
Fil: Balerdi, Soledad. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina. - Fuente
- Culture and Local Governance, 5(1-2), 151-160. (2015)
ISSN 1911-7469 - Materia
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Sociología
Culture
Ethnicity
Indigenous community
Ethnograpghy
Argentina
Culture
Ethnicité
Communauté indigene
Ethnographie
Argentine - Nivel de accesibilidad
- acceso abierto
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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- Institución
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
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Identifications, Cultures, and "Groupness": Reflecting on Culture from Ethnographic Research in Argentina |
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Identifications, Cultures, and "Groupness": Reflecting on Culture from Ethnographic Research in Argentina |
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Identifications, Cultures, and "Groupness": Reflecting on Culture from Ethnographic Research in Argentina |
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This paper reflects on the precautions to be taken into account when addressing the study, from the point of view of the social sciences, of cultures and communities. This is done through ethnographic research in a neighbourhood (barrio) of migrants from an indigenous community in the province of Chaco, in northern Argentina, who have migrated to the city of La Plata (in Buenos Aires province) and have settled on its periphery. The article starts from the idea that ethnicity comes into play, situationally, as a resource rather than as a distinct and immutable feature. Even when it is necessary to describe how notions like culture and ethnicity act in practice and what meaning they have for the actors, social researchers should not historicize them in the specific contexts in which they are brought into play. Cet article met en évidence les précautions et les enjeux à prendre en considération en sciences sociales lorsque l'on aborde les questions culturelles dans les communautés. Cet article met en évidence un travail de terrain de type ethnographique dans un quartier (barrio) de La Plata (province de Buenor Aires) où se trouve une forte concentration de population migrante d'autochtones en provenance de la province de Chaco, dans le nord de l'Argentine. Plutôt que d'approcher l'ethnicité dans une perspective essentialiste et d'en faire une caractéristique immuable de l'identité, cet article s'inspire d'une approche relationnelle. Plutôt que de tenter de figer le sens de notions telles "ethnicité" ou "culture", cet article met en evidence l'importance de reconstruire le sens de ces notions à partir des données contextuelles et du sens qu'elles revêtent pour les acteurs. Fil: Balerdi, Soledad. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina. |
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This paper reflects on the precautions to be taken into account when addressing the study, from the point of view of the social sciences, of cultures and communities. This is done through ethnographic research in a neighbourhood (barrio) of migrants from an indigenous community in the province of Chaco, in northern Argentina, who have migrated to the city of La Plata (in Buenos Aires province) and have settled on its periphery. The article starts from the idea that ethnicity comes into play, situationally, as a resource rather than as a distinct and immutable feature. Even when it is necessary to describe how notions like culture and ethnicity act in practice and what meaning they have for the actors, social researchers should not historicize them in the specific contexts in which they are brought into play. |
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