One could not assume the gender of the children in the foreground. Mobility and inheritance are events that mark masculinity. In addition, boys ideally inherit from their fathers and girls from their mothers. The older boy in the background is identifiable as male. Neither sex is considered adult until they marry and have children.
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 Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Gender: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/gender
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