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Indigenous Religions

Queer Náhuatl: Sahagún’s Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites

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Sigal, P
January 1, 2017

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 com plex bilingual Nahuatl and Spanish document, to decipher some elements about cross-dressing individuals, hom osexualities, and gender inversions in N ahua society at the time of the Spanish conquest. The m ethodology used combines close narrative analysis with intellectual genealogy. The author argues that decoding the texts in this w ay allows us to uncover a cross-dressing male who engaged in " pas- sive” hom osexual acts and had a degraded but institutionalized role to play.

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9780754629603

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January 1, 2017

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321 / 346
 

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Sigal, P. (2017). Queer Náhuatl: Sahagún’s Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites. In Indigenous Religions (pp. 321–346). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315252407-25
Sigal, P. “Queer Náhuatl: Sahagún’s Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites.” In Indigenous Religions, 321–46, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315252407-25.
Sigal P. Queer Náhuatl: Sahagún’s Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites. In: Indigenous Religions. 2017. p. 321–46.
Sigal, P. “Queer Náhuatl: Sahagún’s Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites.” Indigenous Religions, 2017, pp. 321–46. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9781315252407-25.
Journal cover image

DOI

ISBN

9780754629603

Publication Date

January 1, 2017

Start / End Page

321 / 346