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Queer Nahuatl

Sahagún's Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites

Bibliographic Data

ID2736137
AuthorsPete Sigal (0000-0002-1265-0727, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume54
Issue1
Pages9-34
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-2006-038
OpenAlexW2102002015
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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

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Unique citing works10
Citations per year0,71
Citation span2012 - 2019 (8)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 9
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