Open AccessTrabajadores indígenas en el Chaco argentino: algunos sentidos estigmatizadores
Author(s) -
Valería Iñigo Carrera
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
antipoda/antípoda
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1900-5407
pISSN - 2011-4273
DOI - 10.7440/antipoda17.2013.13
Subject(s) - indigenous , materiality (auditing) , agrarian society , ethnology , indigenous culture , humanities , sociology , gender studies , anthropology , political science , geography , art , aesthetics , archaeology , agriculture , biology , ecology
The indigenous Qom people of the central-eastern Chaco (in northeastern Argentina) are workers who are being expelled from agrarian production. This work seeks to help us understand the materiality that this process assumes in peoples' minds, teasing out the following meanings: the tension between "marisca" and "labour", the supposed absence of a "productive culture", and the "dependency" in which Chaco indigenous people allegedly are immersed