SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
 número7La construcción social del problema de la educación: un estudio antropológico desde la perspectiva y los modos de vida de los grupos familiaresObservaciones tafonómicas sobre restos de pinnípedos en la costa norte fueguina (Argentina) índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

  • No hay articulos citadosCitado por SciELO

Links relacionados

  • No hay articulos similaresSimilares en SciELO

Compartir


Intersecciones en antropología

versión On-line ISSN 1850-373X

Resumen

CARMAN, María. The invention of ethnicity and the clearing of squatters in Buenos Aires' Abasto Neighborhood. Intersecciones antropol. [online]. 2006, n.7, pp.387-398. ISSN 1850-373X.

Although a large majority of squatters of buildings and empty lots in the Abasto neighborhood of Buenos Aires come from inland provinces in Argentina, both the state and the rest of the population have historically imagined them to be undocumented Bolivians and Peruvians. What happens when the Bolivians and Peruvians that also live in Abasto are "rediscovered," in recent years, by local authorities? In effect, confronted by the increasing refinement of cultural rivalry between cities, Peruvians and Bolivians are no longer considered as those who "steal jobs from Argentinean people," but have become valued as juridical subjects and citizens of a cosmopolitan Buenos Aires which welcomes with approval its quota of exoticism. The aim of this paper is to identify the arguments used in this invention of ethnicity and their connections with "territorial purification" and the removal of "undesirable inhabitants" from this barrio of Buenos Aires.

Palabras clave : Squatters; Cultural competence; Invention of ethnicity; "Purification of the territory".

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License Todo el contenido de esta revista, excepto dónde está identificado, está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons