Comunidad, escuela y compadrazgo entre migrantes indios en la ciudad de Oaxaca

• Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado ^[1]
  1. [1] Centro INAH Oaxaca
• Localización: Alteridades, ISSN-e 2448-850X, ISSN 0188-7017, Vol. 9, Nº. 17, 1999 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Oaxaca, perspectivas antropológicas), págs. 43-50
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Community, school and “compadrazgo” among migrant indians in the city of Oaxaca
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  • This article explores the tendential form in which migrant Indians in the city of Oaxaca seek to broaden their networks of reciprocity through secular “compadrazgo” relations, taking advantage of the opportunity presented by school graduations of their children at each level of their education, beginning with the earliest stage, that is, preschool.“Compadrazgo” is an institution fundamental to the construction of indigenous communities; this experience offers migrants the chance to ritualize relations of friendship, and in this way to build, in their own parameters, networks of support that create improved living conditions in the city