Abstract

RODRIGUEZ AGUILAR, Onésimo. “And what do we benefit?”: identifications in ethnographic fieldwork with youth gangs in Costa Rica. Etnográfica [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.2, pp.323-334. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.6729.

The article is based on an ethnographic research conducted with cuadrilla (gang) members between 2008 and 2009 in Guararí de Heredia, an urban and popular neighborhood in the Central Valley of Costa Rica (Central America). Two ethnographic anecdotes lived with these young people will serve to raise a discussion about the way these subjects identified me during my fieldwork: I was always an outsider to them, a role that did not preclude ethnographic interaction; that is to say, I decided to keep doing fieldwork with them, despite this strangeness.

Keywords : identifications; ethnography; gangs; Guararí de Heredia; young people; permanence.

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