Peter Sigal

Book · December 13, 2019 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. ... Cite

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

Chapter · 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-dressin ... Full text Cite

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Journal Article HAHR - Hispanic American Historical Review · August 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Unnatural Sex? Epilogue

Chapter · 2016 Cite

James Lockhart (1933–2014)

Journal Article Hispanic American Historical Review · May 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Sodomy

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012)

Journal Article Ethnohistory · July 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos

Chapter · September 9, 2011 Full text Cite

The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture

Book · 2011 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 et ... Cite

Imagining Cihuacoatl: Mexica Masculinity and Spanish Colonization

Journal Article Gender & History · November 2010 Cite

Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos

Journal Article Gender and History · November 1, 2010 '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 ... Full text Cite

Colonial Reflections/Magical Imaginations: Pedro Lasch’s Tezcatlipoca

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality.

Journal Article The American historical review · December 2009 Full text Cite

Review of The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. By Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006)

Journal Article Hispanic American Historical Review · May 2008 Cite

The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

Journal Article Hispanic American Historical Review · May 1, 2008 Full text Cite

The Perfumed Man: Sacrifice, Penetration, and the Feminization of the Male Body in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Queer Nahuatl: Sahagún's faggots and sodomites, lesbians and hermaphrodites

Journal Article Ethnohistory · December 1, 2007 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 ... Full text Cite

Ethnohistory: Guest Editors' Introduction

Journal Article Ethnohistory · December 1, 2007 Full text Cite

Review of The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. By Osvaldo F. Pardo (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)

Journal Article Colonial Latin American Review · June 2007 Cite

Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica

Journal Article Ethnohistory · January 2007 Cite

Sexuality in Maya and Nahuatl Sources

Chapter · 2007 Cite

The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Journal Article COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN REVIEW · 2007 Cite

Review of False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico. by Nora E. Jaffary (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004)

Journal Article American Historical Review · February 2006 Cite

NORA E. JAFFARY. False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico. (Engendering Latin America.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 257. $49.95

Journal Article The American Historical Review · February 1, 2006 Full text Cite

The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin: Homosexualities in Early Colonial Nahua Society

Journal Article Hispanic American Historical Review · November 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Re-Gendering Latin America

Book · 2005 Cite

Review of The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, c. 1901. by Robert McKee Irwin, Eward J. McCaughan, and Michaelle Rocio Nasser, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Journal Article American Historical Review · 2004 Cite

Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America

Book · 2003 Cite

Review of Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, special issue of Hispanic American Historical Review

Journal Article Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe · 2003 Cite

(Homo)Sexual Desire and Masculine Power in Colonial Latin America: Notes Toward an Integrated Analysis

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Gendered Power, the Hybrid Self, and Homosexual Desire in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Yucatan

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Mexico’s Indigenous Past. by Alfredo López austin and Leonardo Lópex Lugan. Trans. Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001)

Journal Article H-LatinAm · 2002 Cite

Review of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. by James N. Green (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999)

Journal Article Journal of Homosexuality · 2002 Cite

Gender, male homosexuality, and power in colonial Yucatán

Journal Article Latin American Perspectives · January 1, 2002 Elites among the Maya considered passivity in males feminine and viewed the vanquished warrior as symbolically if not actually passive. The Maya nobles, lords, and priests at the time of the Spanish conquest used this notion of activity and passivity to as ... Full text Open Access Cite

To Cross the Sexual Borderlands: The History of Sexuality in the Americas

Journal Article Radical History Review · 2002 Open Access Cite

Review of The Emperor’s Mirror: Understanding Cultures through Primary Sources. by Russell J. Barber and Frances F. Berdan (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998)

Journal Article Ethnohistory · 2001 Cite

Review of Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice. by Merry E. Weisner-Hanks (New York: Routledge, 2000)

Journal Article American Historical Review · 2001 Cite