Historical Sediments of Competing Gender Models in Indigenous Guatemala

Abstract

In this chapter, the authors cast a light on Mayan masculinities. Demonstrating that there are always further layers to the onion, we are shown two different Indigenous masculinities performed in the Kaqchikel and Ch'orti' language groups (the former being one of the largest and well-studied groups, the latter less known). Like various contributions to this volume, the authors show how the masculinities in question at once perpetuate old understandings of masculinity, while also reforming the new. In particular we see how masculinity among the Kaqchikel is being impacted by transnational labor migration between Guatemala and North America. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)