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Indigenous Women's Identities and the Politics of Cultural Reproduction in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Author(s) -
Muratorio Blanca
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.409
Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , indigenous , reproduction , gender studies , politics , sociology , inscribed figure , ethnology , ethnic group , narrative , anthropology , space (punctuation) , identity (music) , political science , aesthetics , art , ecology , law , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , literature , biology
This essay explores the current problems of cultural reproduction and identity politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon through the personal memory narratives of a group of elder indigenous women facing difficulties with their granddaughters. It argues that women's histories and their conceptions of self are inscribed in their experiences in a self‐defined “domestic space.” This intracultural struggle provides a better understanding of the scripts of cultural reproduction being played, largely by men, in other scenarios.