SALAZAR CONTRERAS, JAIME
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U$ 5,64 5,06 €
In Amarete, a village with Quechua speaking Indians in the Bolivian Andes, men and women don´t just differ through their biological gender. They also know five symbolic genders: male, female-female, female-male, male-female, male-male. This combined with the biological gender results in ten different gender roles. These gender roles are taking up a wide area in religion, ritual and everyday life. Ina Rösing describes the tenfold gender in everyday life as well as in the rituals of Amarete and comparing the collective rituals of Amarete with the rituals of other villages in the region she reveals the absolute singularity of Amarete´s ten gender system.
