"I want a birthday like this, as peruvian style" migrations and festive knowledge in the city of Cordoba

Authors

  • Cecilia Alejandra Castro Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Keywords:

children birthday, occupational trajectories, knowledge

Abstract

In this paper, we study the employment and occupational trajectories of Carmen and Hermes, both were born in Perú, and immigrated to Córdoba in the early twenty-first century. At present, these agents are articulated in a labor intended for decoration and entertainment children's birthday parties. From an ethnographic perspective, we analyze: the particular migratory experience of each; the maintenance of ties with Perú and Córdoba; the role played by certain women -mothers, sisters and aunts- as links in a chain in the processes of family reunification; their occupations in their cities of origin linking them with their current jobs; body of knowledge that move to position against his countrymen as embodying " Peruvian style " about holding children's birthday parties. At the same time, the text seeks to explain the process by which migrant's get become both “their own bosses” and the importance of social networks does to start and expand their businesses associated with festive practices.

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Author Biography

Cecilia Alejandra Castro, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Lic en Comunicación Social (ECI-UNC). Actualmente estoy en la etapa de redacción de tesis de Maestría en Antropología (FFyH-UNC) y cursando el Doctorado en Antropología (FFyH-UNC). Mis trabajos de investigación están centrados en las dimensiones performativas de prácticas y discursos, con especial énfasis en el análisis de las performances de fiestas de cumpleaños infantiles realizadas en espacios mercantilizados en Córdoba. Participo del Programa de Investigación “Subjetividades y sujeciones contemporáneas”

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Published

2015-08-05

How to Cite

Castro, C. A. (2015). "I want a birthday like this, as peruvian style" migrations and festive knowledge in the city of Cordoba. Interstices of Politics and Culture. Latin American Interventions, 4(7), 77–91. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/11301

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 7 (2015): “Fracturas de la modernidad. Perspectivas, etnografías y otras historias”

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