Crossing the Public/Private border: the exercise of communal power in the low mixe in Oaxaca, Mexico

This article argues that it is possible to ‘de-patriarchalize’ power and to question the preeminence of masculine over feminine authority, which is visible both in the public and private realms. The social arrangement among the Mixe in Oaxaca Mexico proposes a shift in the exercise of power. To arri...

• Main Author: Salazar Zarco, Ana Lilia (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: público/privado; capitalismo; poder comunal; bajo mixe en Oaxaca; trabajo; public/private; capitalism; communal power; low mixe in Oaxaca; work
• Online Access: https://revistas.iaen.edu.ec/index.php/estado_comunes/article/view/180