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SOCIAL FACTORS RELATED TO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AND USE OF FERTILITY CONTROL IN A TRADITIONAL MAYAN VILLAGE IN GUATEMALA
Title
SOCIAL FACTORS RELATED TO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AND USE OF FERTILITY CONTROL IN A TRADITIONAL MAYAN VILLAGE IN GUATEMALA.
Creator
NICK, ELIZABETH A., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this study was to investigate certain socio-cultural change variables that would discriminate attitudes and behavior in regard to modern methods of fertility control. Married women from a Mayan peasant community were interviewed. Analysis revealed that the socio-cultural change variables as suggested by the literature, were non-discriminatory. A possible explanation for non-discrimination is that these variables directly affect the man more than the woman. Traditionally,...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate certain socio-cultural change variables that would discriminate attitudes and behavior in regard to modern methods of fertility control. Married women from a Mayan peasant community were interviewed. Analysis revealed that the socio-cultural change variables as suggested by the literature, were non-discriminatory. A possible explanation for non-discrimination is that these variables directly affect the man more than the woman. Traditionally, fertility control has been the responsibility of the woman by the use of abortion. Therefore, factors that directly affect the woman in the decision to use modern methods appear to discriminate attitudes and behavior. This is the first study of fertility control in these communities, and should be considered a preliminary rather than a definitive study.
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Date Issued
1975
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13737
Subject Headings
Mayas--Social life and customs, Birth control--Guatemala
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The eye of the beholder: ladino and indigenous pageantry in neocolonial Guatemala
Title
The eye of the beholder: ladino and indigenous pageantry in neocolonial Guatemala.
Creator
Kite, Jillian, Beoku-Betts, Josephine, Harvey, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract/Description
In this thesis I utilize a feminist case study method to explore gender, race, authenticity, and nationalism in the context of globalization. Each year, Guatemala conducts two ethno-racially distinct pageants – one indigenous, the other ladina. The indigenous pageant prides itself on the authentic display of indigenous culture and physiognomies. On the contrary, during the westernized ladina pageant, contestants strive to adhere to western beauty ideals beauty and cultural norms engendered by...
Show moreIn this thesis I utilize a feminist case study method to explore gender, race, authenticity, and nationalism in the context of globalization. Each year, Guatemala conducts two ethno-racially distinct pageants – one indigenous, the other ladina. The indigenous pageant prides itself on the authentic display of indigenous culture and physiognomies. On the contrary, during the westernized ladina pageant, contestants strive to adhere to western beauty ideals beauty and cultural norms engendered by discourses of whiteness. However, when the winner advances to the Miss World Pageant, they misappropriate elements of Mayan culture to express an authentic national identity in a way that is digestible to an international audience. In the study that follows, I examine the ways in which national and international pageants are reflective of their respective levels of social and political conflict and how they serve as mechanisms of manipulation by the elite at the national and global levels.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004208, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004208
Subject Headings
Guatemala -- Social life and customs -- 21st century, National characteristics -- Guatemala, Racism in popular culture
Format
Document (PDF)
What remittances can't buy
Title
What remittances can't buy: the social costs of migration and transnational gossip on women in Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
Creator
Sabbagh, Jocelyn., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has...
Show moreThe academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has been absent in previous academic treatments of gender and migration. Transnational gossip has exacerbated the negative effects of migration for women in migrant-sending locations, pushing women to stay in the "private sphere" and serving as a form of social control that keeps women from actively participating in their communities. For many women, long periods of time living apart from their spouses combined with fears about transnational gossip have brought severe loneliness, anxiety, health problems and even seclusion. This phenomenon is helping define the contemporary social structures of Jacaltenango, and represents one of the most important effects of migration in terms of the lived reality of spouses and families of the predominantly male immigrants who leave Mayan communities in Guatemala to seek work in the United States.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11603
Subject Headings
Women heads of households, Guatemalans, Family, Emigration and immigration, Social life and customs
Format
Document (PDF)