Queer Nahuatl

Sahagún's Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2736137
AutoresPete Sigal (0000-0002-1265-0727, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen54
Número1
Páginas9-34
Fecha de publicación2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-2006-038
OpenAlexW2102002015
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

This article provides a method for interpreting the place of sexuality in texts that defy analysis. The author uses one source, the Florentine Codex, a large and complex bilingual Nahuatl and Spanish document, to decipher some elements about cross-dressing individuals, homosexualities, and gender inversions in Nahua society at the time of the Spanish conquest. The methodology used combines close narrative analysis with intellectual genealogy. The author argues that decoding the texts in this way allows us to uncover a cross-dressing male who engaged in "passive" homosexual acts and had a degraded but institutionalized role to play

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · CONQUEST · Genealogy · Human sexuality · Literature · Nahuatl · Narrative · Queer · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Natural History · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American history and culture