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A man is seen riding a mule from the back. The mule is walking next to the river, where women and children, mostly girls, are there to collect water and play. It was women's role to walk to the river and collect water, and girls from very young accompany their mothers and other women to the well (or casimba), which are the holes in the stream bed from which water is drawn for daily life in homes. Piped water arrived in 1978 and until then the creek was the village's drinking supply and the place to do laundry and bathing. A section of the river was closed and off limits for all adult males. The river was also an important place and space for socialization, where women and girls would talk and learn to properly fight. This image illustrates Cross's anthropological categories: Inventory of male-female work roles. Un hombre montado en una mula se ve por atrás. La mula camina al lado del río, donde las mujeres y los niños, en su mayoría niñas, recogen agua y juegan. Las niñas desde muy pequeñas han acompañado a sus madres y demás mujeres a la casimba, que son los huecos en el lecho del arroyo de donde se saca agua para la vida diaria en las viviendas. El agua entubada llegó en 1978 y, hasta entonces, el arroyo era el suministro de agua del pueblo y el lugar para lavar la ropa y bañarse. Una sección del río estaba cerrada y fuera del alcance de todos los varones adultos. El río también era un lugar y espacio importante para la socialización, donde las mujeres y las niñas hablaban y aprendían a luchar adecuadamente. Esta imagen ilustra la categoría antropológica de Cross: Inventario de roles laborales masculino-femenino.
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