Witnessing an Endangered Puberty Ritual
In an Indigenous community in Peru, a girl’s first menstruation is accompanied by a “boot camp” during which she’s trained in how to be a woman—but that tradition is ebbing away.
Witnessing an Endangered Puberty Ritual
Anna Luisa Daigneault
Anna Luisa Daigneault is a linguistic anthropologist, researcher, writer, and artist. Originally from Montreal, Canada, her heritage is Peruvian and French Canadian. She holds a master’s degree in anthropology from the Université de Montréal. Daigneault currently resides in the U.S. and serves as the program director for the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. She has conducted ethnolinguistic fieldwork throughout the Americas and in the Pacific Islands, and has contributed to the publication of over 30 online Talking Dictionaries for endangered and minority languages.