Los sentidos del cuidado para la primera infancia: observaciones antropológicas sobre los centros de primera infancia en la provincia de Salta

Abstract

In this work we analyze services and interventions offered to the maternal and child population by various Early Childhood Centers (CPIs) located in the Capital and Orán departments of the province of Salta from an anthropological perspective. First, we describe how CPIs are defined as government policy; then we seek to understand child care practices in each CPI, and finally, we characterize the workers of each center. In summary, we observe that goverment interventions in terms of child care are closely associated with malnutrition prevention and the supposed public restitution, of child care that is not provided by families, especially mothers.