Artículos de revistas
Memory and ethnic leadership among Afro-descendants and Africans in Argentina
Fecha
2014-04Registro en:
Maffia, Marta Mercedes; Monkevicius, Paola Carolina; Memory and ethnic leadership among Afro-descendants and Africans in Argentina; Taylor & Francis; African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal; 7; 2; 4-2014; 188-198
1752-8631
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Monkevicius, Paola Carolina
Maffia, Marta Mercedes
Resumen
Several academic studies on African and Afro-descendant population in Argentina have made reference to the ‘oblivion’ of the black component in the creation of an ethnically white and homogeneous national collective. The present work intends to rethink this issue in light of an Anthropology of the memory that promotes a critical analysis of the construction of an African past as diacritic of ethnic identification and interaction strategy related to the largest society, paying special attention to the actions of ethnic leaderships in the Afro community. In other words, we consider the processes of creation and validation of a social memory from an African origin by the ethnic entrepreneurs. For that purpose, we conduct a qualitative study employing the techniques characteristic of anthropological ethnography.