Publications

Publication details [#56506]

Oteiza, Teresa and Maria Eugenia Merino. 2012. Am I a genuine Mapuche? Tensions and contradictions in the construction of ethnic identity in Mapuche adolescents from Temuco and Santiago. Discourse & Society 23 (3) : 297–317.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | identity negotiation | ideology | language and society | minority

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores how Mapuche adolescents from Santiago and Temuco dynamically convey and define the value of their Mapuche identity, negotiating naturalized ideological opinions concerning their identity and what is taken as ‘normal’ in their urban communities.