Indigenous beauty pageants can be seen as a way of re-appropriating indigenous identity. This article approaches beauty pageants as being situated in multiple systems of power at four levels of contestation: (1) reproducing gender relations and creating new professional and political opportunities; (2) constituting a site for cultural and political agency and delimiting the ways to ‘be a Maya woman’; (3) reproducing class relations in terms of access to the event and contributing to social awareness of beauty queens; (4) as a social event consolidating (gender) relations within the family. The findings are based on longitudinal (2002–14) ethnographic fieldwork in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

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成为玛雅女性：危地马拉克萨尔特南戈土著、性别和阶级交汇处的选美比赛

土著选美比赛可以被视为一种重新占用土著身份的方式。本文将选美视为在四个竞争层面上处于多重权力体系中：（1）复制性别关系并创造新的职业和政治机会；(2) 构建文化和政治机构的场所并界定“成为玛雅女性”的方式；（3）在参加活动方面再现阶级关系，促进选美皇后的社会意识；(4) 作为巩固家庭内部（性别）关系的社会事件。研究结果基于危地马拉 Quetzaltenango 的纵向（2002-14 年）民族志田野调查。