All in a Day's Walk? The Gendered Geography of Native Migration in Colonial Chiapas and Guatemala

IF 0.6 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Americas Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI:10.1215/00182168-8349851
C. Komisaruk
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The census records of some Indian towns (pueblos de indios) in colonial Chiapas and Guatemala present a puzzle: remarkably uneven gender ratios. This article explores gendered migration as a possible explanation. Previous studies show that the labor markets of colonial Latin American cities attracted mainly female migrants, and this article hypothesizes that people were more likely to migrate if they could make the trip between dawn and dusk. I use Google Maps, as well as colonial writings, to estimate travel times between a sample of Indian pueblos and their closest colonial cities. I then analyze gender ratios in census records from those pueblos. The results suggest that Indian pueblos with large male majorities were generally within a day's walk of a colonial city. Presumably, the male majorities indicate high rates of female out-migration for work in the cities. The article's conclusion discusses impacts that gendered out-migration likely had on sending communities.
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一天的路程?殖民地恰帕斯和危地马拉土著移民的性别地理
在殖民地恰帕斯州和危地马拉的一些印第安城镇(印第安人村庄)的人口普查记录呈现出一个难题:性别比例极不平衡。本文探讨了性别迁移作为一种可能的解释。先前的研究表明,拉丁美洲殖民地城市的劳动力市场主要吸引女性移民,本文假设,如果人们能够在黎明和黄昏之间旅行,他们就更有可能迁移。我用谷歌地图和殖民文字来估算从印第安普韦布洛人到最近的殖民城市之间的旅行时间。然后,我分析了这些普韦布洛人的人口普查记录中的性别比例。研究结果表明,男性占多数的印第安普韦布洛人通常距离殖民城市只有一天的步行路程。据推测,男性占多数表明,女性外出到城市工作的比例很高。文章的结论讨论了性别外迁可能对派遣社区产生的影响。
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