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- Title
Idéologie, symbolisme et rapports entre sexes dans la construction de la personne chacobo.
- Authors
Córdoba, Lorena
- Abstract
Among the Chacobo (Panoans of the Bolivian Amazon), being female is not a purely "natural" or "physiological" state which is defined once and for all. A human being becomes a woman only through progressive stages of social modelling and construction of the Self. This article analyzes the general representations and practices which constitute "humanity" and the "person" among the Chacobo. In the particular case of women, it examines the ideas and values associated with the female gender in the conceptualization of gestation and procreation, as well as in mythical representations of sexuality, ritual restrictions during pregnancy and couvade,female initiation, the sexual division of labour, the ideology of gender relations, and some of the fundamental principles of social organisation.
- Subjects
CHACOBO (South American people); INTERPERSONAL relations &; culture; BIRTH customs; MAN-woman relationships; IDEOLOGY; SOCIAL interaction
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2006, Vol 36, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1081762ar