The messy coloniality of gender and development in Indigenous Wixárika communities.

Understanding the coloniality of gendered lives, family dynamics, social arrangements, and political structures in Indigenous communities begins with confronting and interrogating a history written largely by and for men in positions of power. The archives are limited in terms of what can be gleaned about gender equality and what existed before the proliferation of European patriarchy. Indigenous Wixárika people tread a delicate balance between a lifeworld that is organised around a ritual-agricultural cycle, and the accelerating incorporation of the imperial mode of living and the coloniality of being, into their communities and culture.