Abstract

CZARNY KRISCHKAUTZKY, Gabriela V.. Pasar por la escuela. Metáfora que guarda distintas caras para abordar la relación comunidades indígenas y escolaridad. RMIE [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.34, pp.921-950. ISSN 1405-6666.

This article presents some of the aspects analyzed in a broader study of the meanings of schooling among members of the Triqui community who had migrated from San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, to Mexico City, and had attended school up to the college level in programs specifically for the indigenous. To have a perspective of the characteristic polarization of analyses of the relation between indigenous communities and schooling, I reconstruct categories like belonging to and membership in a community. I reformulate the metaphor, passing through school, which facilities the understanding of complex processes like schooling for members of communities like the Triqui migrants. The study documents the social value they attach to the act of attending school. At the same time, it shows that school attendance is not constructed solely through access to the knowledge of writing that characterizes school, but also through the local meanings that the community assigns to passing through the institution.

Keywords : schooling; indigenous population; migration; ethnographic research; Mexico.

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