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Sexual magic and money: Miskitu women's strategies in northern Honduras
Ethnology • 45 (2) • Published In 2006 • Pages: 143-159
By: Herlihy, Laura Hobson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article highlights Afro-indigenous Miskitu women's position and agency on the increasingly cash-oriented Miskito Coast (northeastern Honduras). While Miskitu men (the main breadwinners) work as deep-water lobster divers, women live in matrilocal groups and use sexual magic to beguile men into giving them their earnings. The women's discourse of sexual magic contests, but does not subvert, the male-dominant gender ideology of the lobster-diving economy. Nevertheless, Miskitu women have refashioned their gender identities and their views of money, into empowering and strategic practices for domestic security (p.143).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sexual stimulation
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Miskito
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1997-1998
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1997-1998
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Kuri, Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Northeastern Honduras
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laura Hobson Herlihy
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-159)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Miskito Indians