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Paperback Behind the Mask: Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community Book
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ISBN: 0816539553

ISBN13: 9780816539550

Behind the Mask: Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community

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The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in the traditional, colorful attire of Zapotec, Juchiteca, females stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous people are called los muxes, and they are neither man nor woman, but rather a hybrid third gender.

After seeing a video of a muxe vela, or festival, sociologist Alfredo Mirand...

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