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Peter Sigal

Professor of History
History
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
337 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books


Ethnopornography Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge

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

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