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Women play a significant role in rituals, cooking food for consumption and sacrifice. Whether women participated in said rituals is unknown. Women also worked on all of the textiles, an essential resource, and product for Maya society. The status of women in Maya society can be inferred from their burials and textual and monumental history.
This was accompanied by a shift in women's roles from wife and mother to playing integral parts in courtly life, such as participating in rituals involving the supernatural world and at times ruling individual polities. A handful of women are described and depicted on monuments taking on roles and titles that were usually reserved for men. [1]
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth (2011), a documentary on the Maya of today and their fight to save their culture and environment. Mayan Renaissance (2012), starring Rigoberta Menchú. Ixcanul (2015), the first movie ever produced completely in Kaqchikel, a Maya language. It's an indie film that relates the life of a young woman in a traditional ...
The Mayan men have declined in their usage of traditional mayan clothing mainly because they want to avoid ladino harassment while, "women... continue to wear indigenous styles of clothing to symbolize their work of bearing and enculturating the next generation and thus perpetuating Mayan culture." [4]
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Indigenous women use national and international legislation to support their claims that go against cultural norms such as domestic violence. [69] Reproductive justice is an important issue to indigenous communities because there is a lack of development in these areas and is less access to maternal care.
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