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Child Development in Post-colonial Contexts: Educational Change and Ethnic Transfiguration in a French Guiana Wayana-apalaï Indigenous Community

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents a first attempt to describe an emergent dynamic: the transformation of family educational practices between Wayana-Apalaï indigenous people of French Guiana. Ethnographic data collected between 2010 and 2013 show a large set of variations concerning care-giving time, house-keeping charges or the frequency of traditional activities. Taking into account the role of schooling and based on a critical analysis of the socio-economic and historical context, the authors interpreted the data as demonstrating the hypothesis that Wayana-Apalaï have been involved in a process of Ethnic Transfiguration which in return has had a deep impact on traditional lifestyle, on community schemes for youth training and education and, last but not least, on child social development.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.1081

Authors: Maurizio Ali, Rodica Ailincai

Institutions: Études approfondies des sociétés traditionnelles et contemporaines en Océanie, University of French Polynesia

Language: English

Topic: Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1966262525

FWCI: 6.019

Cites: 31

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10