kokwimu

Western Keres

Alternative forms

• kok'we'ma

Noun

kokwimu

1. male-bodied person who adopts (usually as a child, but sometimes later in life) the life and work of a woman, and may take men as partners

Usage notes

This term is or was historically used in both Acoma and Laguna Pueblo.

See also

• English: two-spirit
• Eastern Keres: kokwima

References

• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (2010, →ISBN
• American Anthropologist, volume 20 (1918)