“Apart from being taught, you teach yourself”: Appropriation and Religious Trajectories Among Children and Youth in a Toba/ Qom Neighborhood of Buenos Aires

Abstract

In this chapter I analyze the appropriations made by the children and youth from a Toba (Qom) neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, throughout their intercultural life experiences. Based on the systematic analysis of extensive historical-ethnographic fieldwork conducted since 2006, I have reconstructed their diverse formative experiences in their day-to-day lives and registered their religious trajectories, extending over a decade, within a framework of complex interethnic relations...