POST3 Canelos Gender Roles

 

Gender Roles in Canelos

Basic Summary:

- Canelos is a rural parish of the canton of Pastaza, in the territory of Pastaza. It is located to the southeast of the city of Puyo. In the 1860s, Canelos was a canton itself, comprising the villages of Canelos, Sarayaku, Lliquino, Andoas and the Sapara and Jíbara tribes. In 1897, the "Oriental Region" was created, bringing Canelos into the province of Tungurahua. Eventually, the canton became a parish within the canton of Pastaza, now in the province of Pastaza.

Relation to Culture:

- The relation with the region Ecuador Canelos, the gender roles are not that equal. The women do almost all the gardening besides tobacco, plantains, bananas, and maize. They also take care of the children, cook, clean and make everyone clothes. The men mostly hunt, get rid of large trees and vines, tend to the crops women can't tend to, and find jobs they can attend to make money. The few times that men and women work together are when the wives travel to Paris to trade goods. In eHRAF they say "Cosmologically speaking, men are predators, women are domesticators." This relates to our culture because I feel the gender roles here are not equal with jobs, starting with the money made women vs. men. 

Facts About Canelos:

- In Canelo, South American Indian people traditionally lived along the upper Pastaza, Bobonaza, and Napo rivers on the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes

-  The original language and culture of the Canelo are poorly documented, because the Canelo were among the first Amazonian Indians to embrace Christianity.

- When they were first settled in a Dominican mission in 1581, the Canelo gave up their native language for Quechua

Work Cite:

Canelos, oldest indigenous town of the Ecuadorean amazon. Huella Verde Rainforest Lodge near Banos and Puyo. (2015, March 13). Retrieved October 26, 2021, from https://www.huella-verde.org/canelos-3/. 

Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Canelo. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 26, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Canelo.

Whitten Jr, Norman E. 2010. “Culture Summary: Canelos Quichua.” New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files. https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=sd18-000.