Resumen

GONZALEZ CANGAS, Yanko. Rural Youth: Theoretical Trajectories and Identitarian Dilemmas. Nueva antropol [online]. 2003, vol.19, n.63, pp.153-175. ISSN 0185-0636.

This article takes a critical journey through the production of knowledge on youth, particularly rural, in Latin America. It suggests, among other things, a lack in social scientific investigation - especially on behalf of rural anthropology and sociology - in fundamental areas such as the formation of rural youth as identitarian subjects and social actors. It analyzes contextual theoretical elements that provoke this deficiency, as well as the contributions that could cement a systematic social scientific concern. The study proposes the conceptual restructuring of some theoretical approximations to youth identity with the aim of filling some of the gaps in the generation of knowledge on these actors, more frequently than not denied and thus made "invisible" or stereotyped from the point of view of their socio-cultural existence. Finally, it presents some advances in anthropological investigation in Chile, starting from life histories with the aim of offering feedback to the discussion on the emergence of rural youth as social actors and identitarian subjects from a diachronic point of view.

Palabras llave : rural youth; identity; culture; theoretical construction.