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VIZCARRA BORDI, Ivonne  y  MARIN GUADARRAMA, Nadia. Las niñas a la casa y los niños a la milpa: la construcción social de la infancia mazahua. Convergencia [online]. 2006, vol.13, n.40, pp.39-67. ISSN 2448-5799.

Based on feminist anthropology, the purpose of this study is to discuss children's participation in the economy of subsistence of mazahua rural households during three generations. The starting hypothesis is that social practices, based on the sexual division of working, which contribute to the reproduction of mazahua rural households, change faster than the collective subjectivity of the traditional gendered roles. Using ethnography and the narratives of some life histories, we anatyze changes in children activities that are consequence of the agricultural crisis, processes of insertion to globaltzation, and the new ret trictions from the mexican social policy. Our conclusion is that, in spite of these changes in the mazahua daily life, there is a persistence of specific characteristics related to identity and their gender roles. Hence, older generations associate boys to productive activtties such as "la milpa" (the field), and they associate girls with reproductive activities such as "la casa" (the house).

Palabras llave : childhood; mazahuas; gender; identity; economy of subsistence.

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