Pete Sigal
Biographic Data
| ID | 578988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pete Sigal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pete |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigal |
| SIGNATURE | SIGAL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1265-0727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Deviant Darkrooms
Deviant Darkrooms examines the processes of Ajamu X and Rotimi Fani-Kayode, two Black queer London-based photographers, showing that their experiments with darkrooms develop an erotic method to challenge what Black feminist scholar Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman describes as “the awful now.” By embracing historical trauma in an erotic encounter, Ajamu and Fani-Kayode use what I term “transtemporal eroticism” to develop a Black queer world. Through the crea…
Can Chicana Feminists Create a Queer Mesoamerican Memory
In Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas, Susy J. Zepeda examines queer Chicana/Xicana feminists who seek a connection with Indigenous ancestors and living Indigenous peoples. This important book covers both well-known activists, such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Laura Aguilar, and less-known contemporary queer artists. In each case, Zepeda situates the individual in a historical narrative of colonization and decolonization, weaving between …
Ethnopornography
With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography—the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes—is fundamental to the creation of race, colonialism, and archival and ethnographic knowledge.
Ethnopornography
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Making Maya Men
The Franciscan friar Diego de Landa, in the mid-sixteenth century, and the Holly-wood film producer and director Mel Gibson, in the early twenty-first century, created Maya men as beings with perverted and penetrated bodies. In 1566 Landa wrote his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, an extensive text about the Maya people. In 2006 Gibson released Apocalypto, a Hollywood film in which all dialogue was in Yucatec Maya. Landa and Gibson both argued t…
James Lockhart (1933-2014)
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America. Pete Sigal
The Hispanic American Historical Review’s special issue on gender and sexuality is one of the most theoretically informed and methodologically diverse of any issue of the journal in recent memory. The editors are to be commended for putting together a collection of superb essays which truly represents the diversity of this rapidly changing and expanding field of scholarship. There is a preliminary historiographical article, four articles on Chile…
Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012)
Obituary| July 01 2012 Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012) Pete Sigal Pete Sigal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 631–633. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1708579 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pete Sigal; Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012). Ethnohistory 1 July 2012; 59 (3): 631–633. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1708579 Download…
The Flower and the Scorpion
Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of "sex" or "sexuality" equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this innovative ethnohistory, Pete Sigal seeks to shed new light on Nahua concepts of the sexual without relying on the modern Western concept of sexuality. Along with clerical documents and other Spanish sources…
Imagining Cihuacoatl
‘Imagining Cihuacoatl’ examines the conundrum of the multiple identities of the ‘serpent woman’, a Mexica goddess, analysing her relationship with other goddesses in the Nahua pantheon. She and the others were marked in a particular sexualised and gendered manner in the Nahua world. This article argues that Cihuacoatl and the fertility goddesses cannot be conceptualised in a symbolic universe that has binary divisions between male and female, nor…
Latin America and the Challenge of Globalizing the History of Sexuality
THE COAST of what is now northern Peru wrote perhaps the first Latin American history of sexuality sometime between 150 and 800 C.E.These craftsmen declared their interest in "sexual" subjects by producing a vast amount of pottery that depicted anal intercourse, fellatio, and masturbation.Only rarely did they construct explicit images in which the penis penetrated the vagina.One anthropologist argues convincingly that the artisans intended these …
The Memory of Bones
The Memory of Bones is a masterfully written analysis of classic Maya culture, using the human body as both object and method. While many scholars have previously touched upon this topic, Houston, Stuart, and Taube pull together some first-rate research and intriguing methodological and theoretical discussions. These three scholars, all prominent Mayanists, argue that the body centers classic Maya experiences, emotions, and thoughts. The Maya use…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Queer Nahuatl
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…
The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin
The cuiloni: the sodomite, the penetrated man, the homosexual, the passive, the third sex, the faggot, the queer. Cuiloyotl (or cuilonyotl): sodomy, homosexuality, the act without which the cuiloni could not exist. The term cuiloni reveals much about sexuality, sexual identity, and the many homosexualities present in early colonial discourse on the Nahuas, the indigenous peoples who at the time of the Spanish Conquest made up the bulk of the popu…
Gender, Male Homosexuality, and Power in Colonial Yucatán
Scholars have been studying the history of homosexuality for two decades, but only rarely have they ventured beyond the study of homosexuality in modern Europe and the United States. In the past several years, others have begun to challenge the Eurocentric biases of these works. One set of issues often overlooked by both Latin American historians and historians of homosexuality in general is the connection between homoeroticism, colonialism, and …
To Cross the Sexual Borderlands
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
Ethnohistory and Homosexual Desire
The Flower and the Scorpion
Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of "sex" or "sexuality" equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this innovative ethnohistory, Pete Sigal seeks to shed new light on Nahua concepts of the sexual without relying on the modern Western concept of sexuality. Along with clerical documents and other Spanish sources…
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Queer Nahuatl
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…
The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin
The cuiloni: the sodomite, the penetrated man, the homosexual, the passive, the third sex, the faggot, the queer. Cuiloyotl (or cuilonyotl): sodomy, homosexuality, the act without which the cuiloni could not exist. The term cuiloni reveals much about sexuality, sexual identity, and the many homosexualities present in early colonial discourse on the Nahuas, the indigenous peoples who at the time of the Spanish Conquest made up the bulk of the popu…
Ethnohistory and Homosexual Desire
Gender, Male Homosexuality, and Power in Colonial Yucatán
Scholars have been studying the history of homosexuality for two decades, but only rarely have they ventured beyond the study of homosexuality in modern Europe and the United States. In the past several years, others have begun to challenge the Eurocentric biases of these works. One set of issues often overlooked by both Latin American historians and historians of homosexuality in general is the connection between homoeroticism, colonialism, and …
To Cross the Sexual Borderlands
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin
The cuiloni: the sodomite, the penetrated man, the homosexual, the passive, the third sex, the faggot, the queer. Cuiloyotl (or cuilonyotl): sodomy, homosexuality, the act without which the cuiloni could not exist. The term cuiloni reveals much about sexuality, sexual identity, and the many homosexualities present in early colonial discourse on the Nahuas, the indigenous peoples who at the time of the Spanish Conquest made up the bulk of the popu…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Queer Nahuatl
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…
The Memory of Bones
The Memory of Bones is a masterfully written analysis of classic Maya culture, using the human body as both object and method. While many scholars have previously touched upon this topic, Houston, Stuart, and Taube pull together some first-rate research and intriguing methodological and theoretical discussions. These three scholars, all prominent Mayanists, argue that the body centers classic Maya experiences, emotions, and thoughts. The Maya use…
Latin America and the Challenge of Globalizing the History of Sexuality
THE COAST of what is now northern Peru wrote perhaps the first Latin American history of sexuality sometime between 150 and 800 C.E.These craftsmen declared their interest in "sexual" subjects by producing a vast amount of pottery that depicted anal intercourse, fellatio, and masturbation.Only rarely did they construct explicit images in which the penis penetrated the vagina.One anthropologist argues convincingly that the artisans intended these …
Imagining Cihuacoatl
‘Imagining Cihuacoatl’ examines the conundrum of the multiple identities of the ‘serpent woman’, a Mexica goddess, analysing her relationship with other goddesses in the Nahua pantheon. She and the others were marked in a particular sexualised and gendered manner in the Nahua world. This article argues that Cihuacoatl and the fertility goddesses cannot be conceptualised in a symbolic universe that has binary divisions between male and female, nor…
The Flower and the Scorpion
Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of "sex" or "sexuality" equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this innovative ethnohistory, Pete Sigal seeks to shed new light on Nahua concepts of the sexual without relying on the modern Western concept of sexuality. Along with clerical documents and other Spanish sources…
Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012)
Obituary| July 01 2012 Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012) Pete Sigal Pete Sigal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 631–633. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1708579 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pete Sigal; Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012). Ethnohistory 1 July 2012; 59 (3): 631–633. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1708579 Download…
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America. Pete Sigal
The Hispanic American Historical Review’s special issue on gender and sexuality is one of the most theoretically informed and methodologically diverse of any issue of the journal in recent memory. The editors are to be commended for putting together a collection of superb essays which truly represents the diversity of this rapidly changing and expanding field of scholarship. There is a preliminary historiographical article, four articles on Chile…
James Lockhart (1933-2014)
Ethnopornography
With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography—the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes—is fundamental to the creation of race, colonialism, and archival and ethnographic knowledge.
Ethnopornography
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Making Maya Men
The Franciscan friar Diego de Landa, in the mid-sixteenth century, and the Holly-wood film producer and director Mel Gibson, in the early twenty-first century, created Maya men as beings with perverted and penetrated bodies. In 1566 Landa wrote his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, an extensive text about the Maya people. In 2006 Gibson released Apocalypto, a Hollywood film in which all dialogue was in Yucatec Maya. Landa and Gibson both argued t…
Can Chicana Feminists Create a Queer Mesoamerican Memory
In Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas, Susy J. Zepeda examines queer Chicana/Xicana feminists who seek a connection with Indigenous ancestors and living Indigenous peoples. This important book covers both well-known activists, such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Laura Aguilar, and less-known contemporary queer artists. In each case, Zepeda situates the individual in a historical narrative of colonization and decolonization, weaving between …
Deviant Darkrooms
Deviant Darkrooms examines the processes of Ajamu X and Rotimi Fani-Kayode, two Black queer London-based photographers, showing that their experiments with darkrooms develop an erotic method to challenge what Black feminist scholar Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman describes as “the awful now.” By embracing historical trauma in an erotic encounter, Ajamu and Fani-Kayode use what I term “transtemporal eroticism” to develop a Black queer world. Through the crea…
History (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Human sexuality (7 works)