Between the countryside and the city: The influence of ethnic-racial categories on the economic strategies of women traders in the Mercado Emprendedor of Chota

• Autor: Zorrilla Culcas, Zareli
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/27321
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropia/article/view/27321
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Trabajo; Mujeres; Mercado; Raza-Etnicidad; Estrategias económicas; Labor; Women; Marketplace; Racial and ethnic; Economic strategies

This research seeks to understand how the processes of economic advancement occur in the cases of three cases of women traders of the “Mercado Emprendedor of Chota”. Based on qualitative research conducted during the month of May 2022 within the framework of the Field Practice II course, I set out to analyze how ethnoracial categories influence the economic strategies developed by these women. To answer this question, I inquired how these women generate income for their household and what economic strategies they employ, such as migration and product commercialization. In the analysis, the ethnic-racial markers deployed by these actors, such as clothing, speech and education, were identified, taking as a reference the theoretical contributions of De la Cadena (1999). From this, it was concluded that these ethno-racial markers that identify women as more or less Indian are aligned to the economic strategy they use. The self-identification they adopt allows them to link themselves both in the countryside and in the city, as a consequence, they have the possibility of developing familiarity with their suppliers, women who move from the countryside to the city to sell their products and, at the same time, with urbanized buyers, well-established migrants.