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

By Meghan Farley Webb
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By Meghan Farley Webb
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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...

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Social SciencesLatinos & Latin AmericansLatin Americans - General & MiscellaneousLatin American and Caribbean studies->General