Ethnicity as an "event". An ethnography of the trajectories of subjectivation and ethnic de-communalization Huarpe in Mendoza and San Luis

Authors

  • Leticia Katzer Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Keywords:

Ethnography, ethnic event, ethnic trajectories, Huarpes

Abstract

Between 1998 and 2010 a set of families recognized as Huarpes, residents in the province of Mendoza and San Luis, has been juridically inscribed as “indigenous communities”. This process has not been lived as an homogeneus movement. We notes that  we understand as three different ethnic trajectories: the communalization, the de-communalization and the non-communal trajectory. The goal of this article is to explore  the different modalities of organization   of the ethnic ascription and its articulation ways. Thinking the ethnicity as “event”, we propose the following hipothesis: the ethnic identifications draw different trajectories of “community life” among wich the communalization trajectory is only one.

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Author Biography

Leticia Katzer, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Dra. Leticia Katzer- CIER-UNCUYO- CONICET

Published

2015-08-05

How to Cite

Katzer, L. (2015). Ethnicity as an "event". An ethnography of the trajectories of subjectivation and ethnic de-communalization Huarpe in Mendoza and San Luis. Interstices of Politics and Culture. Latin American Interventions, 4(7), 63–76. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/11369