Estudio etnográfico de la crianza y de la participación de los niños en comunidades rurales de los Valles Calchaquíes septentrionales (noroeste Argentino)

Abstract

This paper analyzes some aspects emerging from an ethnographic research about childrearing and child development from an ecological perspective. Its focuses on results if a fieldwork carried out in rural communities of the Calchaqui Valleys (Salta, Northwest Argentina) and based on the use of ethnographic techniques. By taking as reference the concept of “developmental niche”, discourses and practices about childrearing and children’s health care (guaguas) are characterized in the context of subsistence activities at the domestic scope. Moreover, transformations of theses discourses through generations and their articulations and tensions with different knowledge and institutional practices are deepened.

Keywords

• ethnography
• Argentina
• childrearing
• child development
• developmental niche
• Valles Calchaquies