Transformations in the Amazon: Status, Gender, and Change among the Asháninka

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  • Judy Tizón Antropóloga, trabaja en el Departamento de Geografía y Antropología de la University of Southern Maine. 37 College Avenue. Gorhans, Maine 04038 EE.UU.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52980/revistaamazonaperuana.vi24.112

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Asháninka, gender relations, cultural transformation

Abstract

The negative effects on Indigenous peoples of the Amazon of externally controlled forces such as road construction, deforestation, and colonization have been denounced by researchers and the popular press, but insufficient attention has been paid to changes in gender relations and women’s status (social position) as a result of this process of cultural transformation. This process among the Asháninka of Peru’s humid tropical forest is examined over the past twenty years, with regard to relevant studies and regional political developments.

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1994-06-14

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Transformations in the Amazon: Status, Gender, and Change among the Asháninka. (1994). Peruvian Amazon, 24, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.52980/revistaamazonaperuana.vi24.112

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