Tres textos etnográficos sobre la mujer indígena guatemalteca

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El estudio antropológico de género y de la mujer ha avanzado mucho desde la publicación del innovador libro Woman, Culture and Society (1974), el cual contiene, entre sus magníficos ensayos, el de Lois Paul, “The Mastery of Work and the Mystery of Sex in a Guatemalan Village”, donde se ofrece una descripción bastante expresiva de las mujeres mayas de habla zutuhíl, de San Pedro de la Laguna.

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Debate. Three ethnographic texts about the Guatemalan Indigenous woman

The anthropological study of gender and of women has been greatly developed since the publication of the book Woman, Culture and Society (1974), which contains, among its magnificent essays, that of Lois Paul, “The Mastery of Work and the Mystery of Sex in a Guatemalan Village”, where we are offered a fairly expressive description of the Mayan women of Zutuhíl language from San Pedro de la Laguna.

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Druzo Maldonado Jiménez, Deidades y espacio ritual en Cuauhnáhuac y Huaxtepec. Tlalhuicas y xochimilcas de Morelos (siglos XII-XVI), [Deities and ritual space in Cuauhnáhuac and Huaxtepec. Tlalhuica and Xochimilca of Morelos (XII-XVI centuries] Mexico, UNAM-IIA, 2000, 267 pp.

This book is the result of the author’s concern to extend the study of the main groups that in pre-Hispanic times, particularly immediately before the Conquest, inhabited most of the territory which nowadays conforms the state of Morelos. In this … [Texto completo]