Mujeres Aymara escalando los andes: ¿cómo enfrentan la doble discriminación? Una aproximación a la vida de las “cholitas escaladoras” en Bolivia.

Abstract

This ethnography is an approach to the lives of Aymara women known as "cholitas escaladoras de Bolivia". Taking up the notions of subjectivity and agency proposed by Sherry Ortner (2016), it aims to explain their subjectivity and agency as indigenous women and mountaineers is configured in a context marked by discrimination and inequality. I argue that, on the one hand, the subjectivity of these indigenous women mountaineers is configured based on two fundamental axes: a particular relationship with the mountains and the role of their family ties. On the other hand, despite the various relations of domination that affect them, these women configure their agency, resisting and also sustaining and protecting culturally significant "projects". The methodology used in the research was qualitative in nature and included: participant observation, non-directive interviews, informal conversations and a photographic record.