Male Homosexual Roles Among the Isthmus Zapotec of Southern Mexico

Male Homosexual Strait Zapoteca The role of Amog in Carlos and Javier in southern Mexico is two men living in Mexico Juchit∫n city. They work in a small town near the main town square, z Caro. Sometimes, they meet other people outside the hotel and see the way people traveled the z-calo. Almost anywhere Mexico, an attractive woman in the past, men comment on each other and fine-tune, but Carlos and Javier are silent through the exchanges. They will not talk until an attractive young man goes by.

There are four basic groups of Zapotecs: istmeños, they live in the strait of Southern Serranos in Tehuantepec, they live in the mountain south of Sierra sul, the mountain in the northern part of Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, South I live in Zapotecs. I live in the Oaxaca Valley and its surrounding central valley Zapotecs. The Chatino community is located in the southeastern part of Oaxaca. The number of speakers in the Chatino language is about 23,000 (ethnographic research), but the number of Chatinos may be more. They call themselves KitseCha'tño and their words Cha'tña. Santos Reyes Nopala, San Juan Quiahije, San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Santiago Yaitepec, Santa Cruz Zezontepec, San Juan Lachao, Santa María Temaxcaltepec, Santa Catarina Juquila and Tataltepec de Valdez: mainly throughout the city around Juquila The population of Oataka Chatino,

In a small town in the indigenous countryside of Mexico, the Sapoteca has a third gender called muxe (sometimes spelled muxhe). Both men and women, somewhere in between, as India's hijula ​​like diverse music (roughly speaking) is a biologically male, but dresses and actions are generally associated with women It is done. This is a brief history of the third gender in Mexico. This is mainly considered as the causal Spanish "woman" (MUJER) term in the Danube river around the community of the Ossra Strait, the gender of the population, the third tolerance is more common than the rest of Mexico It is getting higher. Unfortunately, contrary to the general idea, discrimination continues to exist. In other areas, multiplexers are known with other names such as bisa'ah.

Today's Zapotecs are generally categorized into four categories. The state occupied the fertile Central Valley of Oaxaca and the valley Zapotecs; the mountains and the mountain Zapotecs, occupying Ixtlán, Villa Alta and Choapán area, living in the tropical isthmus of the Tehuantepec Strait Zapotecs; and to the south of Seminya's Miahuatlán area There are Zapotecs. This distribution is nearly equivalent to their position in the Spanish conquest of 1521. Sapoteca (Sapoteca and Chatino) belongs to Otomanguean, which is a large inventory language, language is one of the oldest shares in Central America. This includes a number of other language groups, such as Oaxaca Mishteka, Cuicatec and Mazatec, Mexico, Hidalgo Otomí, and Mangi Central America, so that there is nothing to do with Maya or Uto-Aztecan shares.