Mother holds baby that is dressed in typical girls' clothing and, from our point of view, appears to be a girl but may in fact be a boy. Babies are dressed in female clothing until the 'corte pelo' haircutting ceremony and then boys are dressed in pants.
Bibliography:
Isbell, Billie Jean. De inmaduro a duro: lo simbólico femenino y los esquemas andinos de género. Chap. 8 of Más allá del silencio: las fronteras de género en los Andes, D. Y. Arnold, compiladora. La Paz: Biblioteca Andina, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2474 Isbell, Billie Jean. "De inmaduro a duro: lo simbólico femenino y los esquemas andinos de género." Chap. 8 of Más allá del silencio: las fronteras de género en los Andes, D. Y. Arnold, compiladora. La Paz: Biblioteca Andina, 1997: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2474 Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Gender: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/gender
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