Debates sobre lo político entre jóvenes mapuche en Argentina

Abstract

This article uses an anthropological approach to analyze definitions of politics among different groups of young activists within the contemporary Mapuche movement in Argentina. First, I present a short description of the Mapuche organizational landscape in the northern provinces of Patagonia since the 1990s in order to present the context of emergence of self defined "young" activists. Second, I explain my theoretical approach, and, in doing so, present the tensions and relations between academic approaches and native theories. Finally, I focus on the trajectories and perspectives of three different groups of young Mapuche in the city of Bariloche, province of Río Negro.