Abstract

MACARENA OSSOLA, María. Young indigenous people on the boundaries: Relationships between ethnicity, schooling and territoriality. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.2, pp.547-562. ISSN 1692-715X.

Abstract (analytical): From an ethnographic perspective, two scenarios areanalyzedthat locate the young native people inbordersituations. On the one hand, the condition of living in the geographic and administrative limits that separate the national States. On the other, formal education is discussed understanding it as a transitional or borderspace. We claim that the border, as to analytical category, has become a theoretical tool fraught with tensions in the social sciences, which is why a particular approach from Social Anthropology is proposed. The reflections are illustrated with records obtained from the field work conducted in the Wichíindigenous communities (Argentina) in the framework of a qualitative research that aims at knowing the senses that formal education holds in store for the young native people. A result of the research which stands out is the generation of knowledge about the compulsory schooling of the indigenous peoples from the perspective of the actors involved.

Keywords : ethnography; youth; indigenous peoples; boundaries; compulsory education.

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