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DRS/SRI: Indigenous Cosmologies on Sexualities
Date
From: 03 June 2013 16:15
Till: 03 June 2013 17:45
Location:
Aula A
Description
Speaker: Sylvia Marcos, Director of the Center for Psychoethnological Research in Cuernavaca, Mexico
Development Research Series organized by Sexuality Research Initiative @ISS: 'Why Sex Counts'
Spring/Summer 2013
Abstract
A review of what being male and female means among the Mayan indigenous peoples of the State of Chiapas. The seminar will review some of the ways gender is constructed, sexuality interpreted, and justice achieved by standing within epistemic references that illuminate a particular way of viewing and conceptualizing the body and its interrelations with others, nature, and the cosmos.
Through the analysis of some of the women’s discourses, live presentations and addresses, we can unravel some of the deepest cosmological meanings that help us to understand assertions for rights like “We are equal because we are different” or “Obeying we lead” “Walking we ask” which lead us towards a women’s grassroots subversive proposal for a better and dignified life, that substitutes the neo-colonial concept of “Development”.
Lekil kuxlehal, in Tzeltal language, is the term used to define what a dignified, prosperous, happy and equitable life is.
About the speaker
See for more information:
Please contact Dr Wendy Harcourt: harcourt@iss.nl and Dr Silke Heumann: heumann@iss.nl
Full DRS/SRI: 'Why Sex Counts' Programme
Publication date: Wednesday, 06 February 2013
