Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community
by
Alfredo Mirandé
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in the traditional, colorful attire of Zapotec, Juchiteca, females stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous people are called los muxes,...