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The Flower and the Scorpion

Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture
BuchGebunden
384 Seiten
Englisch
Duke University Presserschienen am25.11.2011
Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextSigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-8223-5138-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Erscheinungsdatum25.11.2011
Seiten384 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht671 g
Artikel-Nr.13098336
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GenreGeschichte/Politik
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Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
About the Series ix Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Preface. The People, the Place, and the Time xv 1. The Bath 1 2. Trash 29 3. Sin 61 4. The Warrior Goddess 103 5. The Phallus and the Broom 139 6. The Homosexual 177 7. Sex 207 8. Mirrors 241 Appendix. The Chalca Woman's Song 255 Abbreviations 263 Notes 265 Bibliography 327 Index 353mehr
Kritik
"This book emerges from a scholarly utilization of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century primary sources to illuminate not only very complex Nahua thought and practices but also the colonial context that shaped the discourse around themes that defy our modern labels, such as 'sex' itself. Pete Sigal employs his training in Nahuatl to analyze terms and texts in their original language, producing his own translations and interpreting meanings, always with an effort to delineate Western frames and biases that might colour our understanding." Stephanie Wood, author of Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico "The Flower and the Scorpion is a fascinating history of understandings of Nahua sexuality from the pre-contact era through the early colonial period. Drawing on a stunning array of Nahuatl- and Spanish-language primary sources, Pete Sigal considers what the Nahua wrote about their beliefs, deities, rituals, and activities relating to sexuality. But The Flower and the Scorpion is not only about the Nahua; it is also about the Spaniards and what they thought about sexuality, their own and that of the Nahua. Sigal shows us how different the perceptions of the Nahua and the Spaniards were, especially as they related to sex, and how different their ideas remained well into the seventeenth century, even as they lived in close proximity to one another." Susan Schroeder, editor of The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialismmehr