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Public Loves, Private Troubles: Migration, Technology, and Intimacy in Rural Indigenous Guatemala

Public Loves, Private Troubles: Migration, Technology, and Intimacy in Rural Indigenous Guatemala

Webb, Meghan Farley

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Issues and Methods in Indigenous Studies

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0817362010
ISBN13: 9780817362010
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examines the role of digital technologies in the lives of Kaqchikel Maya women whose husbands work abroad.

Anthropologist Meghan Farley Webb's ethnography, Public Loves, Private Troubles, uses the lens of cellphones and other digital technologies to unpack marriage, love, sexuality, and family issues of Kaqchikel Maya women who remain in Guatemala while their husbands are part of the transnational migration workforce. Indigenous intimacy has been underexplored in ethnographic literature, and this is among the first books to focus on information technology's impact on intimacy and family in the Maya area. Overall, Webb shows how Maya women are empowered with their more autonomous lives when the husbands are absent but also are constrained by social media monitoring of their activities.

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