Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Proud mother & child
- Title:
- Proud mother & child
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Gender roles series
- Date:
- 1970
- Location:
- Chuschi (Peru)
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00047
- File Name:
- ISB_00047.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Gender
Women
Children
- Image View Description:
- View of Proud mother & child
- Description:
- Infant is dressed in feminine clothing because both sexes are dressed as girls and hair is not cut until a ritual hair cutting ceremony, at which time boys receive male clothing and the haircut of a boy. The ritual hair cutting is the occasion when a child receives first inheritance, usually an animal. Child in the back is male.
- Bibliography:
- Isbell, Billie Jean. "De inmaduro a duro: lo simbólico femenino y los esquemas andinos de género." Chap. 8 of Más allá del silencio: las fronteras de género en los Andes, D. Y. Arnold, compiladora. La Paz: Biblioteca Andina, 1997: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2474
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Gender: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/gender
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Gender roles series : 06
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.
