Indians, Blacks and Morochos. Trajectories, Intersectionalities, and Class Frictions in a Neighborhood of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

MENARA LUBE GUIZARDI; SILVINA MERENSON

University of North Carolina Press

Lugar: North Carolina; Año: 2021 p. 135

9781469666440

In Indians, Blacks, and Morochos Menara Guizardi and Silvina Merenson address therelationships between stratification and social mobility in contemporary Argentina,using an ethnographic study on class relations in the San Telmo neighborhood ofBuenos Aires. Relying on the Extended Case Method, the authors narrate the lifehistory of Ramiro. A worker who has lived in the neighborhood for forty years,Ramiro strives to carve out a career through a network of micro and macro socialrelationships and conflicts that frame his daily life. Synthesizing the debates on classinternationally and in Argentina, Guizardi and Merenson establish the study?s initialtheoretical frameworks and describe the methodology used. They then reconstructRamiro?s life starting from his experiences in his home province of Tucumán, hismigration to Buenos Aires, his settling in San Telmo and entering the work force,and the class conflicts that he experienced. The authors conclude by presenting atentative anthropological conceptualization of class.