Family Structure and Marriage

Family Structure and Marriage

Families

• Ecuadorian society was hierarchical

• It was difficult to move from one social status to another one.

• People can change the status only if the got marriage but they pay attention with who they will got marriage

What happen before marriage?

• The man need to:

• Send respectful letters through friends or employees of the house

• Walks around the girl´s house

• If she accpet the letters and walks

• He needs to ask the parents of the girl the girl´s hand in marriage

Then...

• After lots of questions the parents decides if she got married or not

• If they told "Yes" the girls needs to present a DOWRY

• It is a transfer of parental property, gifts, or money

Indigenous marriages

• Joyful parties

• Lasted one week

• They eat and dance a lot

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Choose the way that people can change the status

• They fight to win it

• They got marriage

• Born again

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Choose the steps before asking to got marriage

• Write respectful letters

• Go to the cinema

• Take a walk around the girl´s house

• Call and talk about everything

What women do on that time?

• Go to the church and pray with her family

• Organizing domestic tasks

• Embroidery

• Young women receive: Language, piano and singing classes

• Women were not allowed to go out by their own, they need to got out with 1 man

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What women can do?

• Domestic tasks

• Go out by their own

• Embroidery

• Don´t pray

Artisans and Indigenous people

• Mestizos started working at handicrafts

• Artisan workshops were installed in the houses

• Young people work for free until they can work on a job

• Sometimes women help there

• The women became CAJONERAS

• Cajoneras: sold different items to people like: candles, belts, combs...

Indigenous Men

• Work in the house of Creoles, they do: PAGES, BUTLERS AND HUASICAMAS

• Pages: servants

• Butlers: domestic workers

• Huasicamas: entertaining

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Indigenous women

• They worked in the Creoles house, as

• Cooking servants

• Laundrywomen

• Muchachas de mano: carrying the necessary implements for the church

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Who work for free until have a job?

• Man

• Young people

• Women

• All

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Activities that Indigenous women do in Creoles´ house

• Landrywomen

• Play the guitar

• Muchachas de mano

• Plant tress