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JARAMILLO, Jesús. "This is Chorro": Masculine Identifications and Childhood Learning Experiences in Urban Contexts of Argentina. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2015, n.23, pp.113-128. ISSN 1900-5407.  https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda23.2015.06.

The article analyzes the gender identifications carried out by a group of young boys who live in the city of Neuquén, in the province of the same name, situated in the north of the Argentine Patagonia. For this purpose, I have collected information on theft-related neighborhood practices involving children in collaboration with whom I did the fieldwork. I later focused the analysis on an incident with Alejandro, a member who was expelled from the group for stealing a box of markers. The ethnographic account of these events seem to indicate that the relationships and the forms of perception established with choreo, far from being a moral failing, respond instead to a child’s learning experience linked to processes of identifying with masculinity, with organizing principles in group life that have defined forms of prestige and respect within the context of the neighborhood.

Palabras clave : Masculine identifications; learning; socialization; ethnography with children; urban contexts.

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