Mbyá children’s knowledge

ENRIZ NOELIA

Paris

Congreso; Colloque Enfance et cultures; 2010

Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication

The anthropological interest in childhood has transited a period of great vitality in Latin America in the last decade. A diverse group of authors have become interested in investigations where the perspectives of the children are center stage; (Colangelo 2003; Cohn 2001; Donoso 2005; Enriz 2006; Hecht 2004; García Palacios 2005; Larriq 1993; Leal Ferreira 2002; Nunes 1999; Szulc 2000; Remorini 2004; Tasinari 2001; Trpin 2004). These investigations have recovered the ethnographic focus to approximate themselves to a wide array of topics like religious knowledge, the diverse linguistic appropriations, matters of health, etcetera. Play has been a theme to which many experiences have alluded, due to its emerging character in everyday infantile life. Within this mark is this investigation with Mbyá Guaraní children from the province of Misiones, in Argentina.