“May I show you our school?» Biocultural ethics in a visual ethnography in southern Chile

Abstract

This report describes the relationship between a rural school in northern Patagonia and its immediate surroundings. Through an ethnographic approach, it brings together different images of the everyday lives of students and teachers, challenging the boundaries between anthropocentric moralities and ecological urgencies, state education and Mapuche cosmovision, classroom and forest.

Keywords

Visual ethnography, Visual culture of schools, Biocultural ethics, Chile, Mapuche