Of stories and memories

A situated anthropological analysis of the identities of indigenous women in an intermediate city

Abstract

The present work has been constituted in an effort to understand certain aspects related to the social production of contemporary identity discourses of women who are ethnically ascribed as indigenous and to inscribe them within the framework of a broader social process. The specificity of the proposed theme is inscribed in the heterogeneity of meanings that these women recognize when defining themselves as indigenous, which allows beginning to outline a field of research in an area where this theme was only linked to the past through historical and archaeological studies. In this sense, although there are studies at the national level, in the city of Olavarría they have not been carried out systematically or from the perspective of their protagonists. For this reason, it is proposed to build new and updated knowledge through an ethnographic approach that allows analyzing and understanding the various processes of identity construction in an intermediate-type city.