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Quispillacta Tucno family
- Title:
- Quispillacta Tucno family
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Gender roles series
- Date:
- 1967
- Location:
- Quispillaccta (Peru)
Quispillacta (Peru)
Quispillaqta (Peru)
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00015
- File Name:
- ISB_00015.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Families
Women
Children
- Image View Description:
- View of Quispillacta Tucno family
- Description:
- Young mother with infant. At birth, a child is not given a name, nor gender identification
rather a name is bestowed when a child can sit up and support its weight. When a child can walk the gender identity is confirmed.
- 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 : 02
- 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.
