Women and time: social and identity referents. The case of San Bartolo Teontepec, Puebla.

Abstract

This work resumes the case of San Bartolo Teontepec, located in the southeast of the state of Puebla, in order to explain the characteristics of women starting from their temporary and identity referents. This is reflected in their life stages (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age) related with a series of physical
and biological elements, but also with their roles, that altogether, serve as temporary markers which are socially signified as, each one of them are given practices, relationships, values, and norms; expression of their local cultural referents, and what it is expected from them. Therefore, women are subjects generically built from specific times that become part of their identity referents.