Queer Nahuatl

Sahagún's Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2736137
AutoresPete Sigal (0000-0002-1265-0727, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume54
Fascículo1
Páginas9-34
Data de publicação2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-2006-038
OpenAlexW2102002015
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

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