Abstract

TOZZINI, M. Alma. Historia y narrativa en procesos de auto reconocimiento étnico. Avá [online]. 2008, n.13, pp.1-1. ISSN 1851-1694.

Processes of ethnic self aknowledgement in peoples that until recent defined themselves by a "national" identity, are not new as a social phenomena any more. Nevertheless, those processes continue to be a controversial issue, and the academic environment is usually summoned to analize them. Based on the ethnografhic study of a specific case in Lago Puelo, northwestern Chubut, the present article intends to be a contribution to the debate over the possibilities that the anthropological approach of the analysis of the "native" narratives can provide to the understanding of these processes as well as to the formulation of new and better questions which could not be satisfied with "normative" academic responses.

Keywords : Ethnic self acknowledgement; Socio-historical processes; Narrative; Mapuche People.