Decolonizing the sodomite
Subtitle: queer tropes of sexuality in colonial Andean culture
By: by Michael J. Horswell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Homosexuality, Male -- Andes Region -- History; Homosexuality, Male -- Spain -- History; Sex customs -- Andes Region -- History; Sex customs -- Spain -- History; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Sexual behavior; Indians of South America -- Colonization -- Andes Region; Incas -- Sexual behavior; Indian gays -- Andes Region -- History; Indian gays -- Andes Region -- Sexual behavior; Spain -- Colonies -- America; Spain -- Foreign relations -- Andes Region; Andes Region -- Foreign relations -- Spain
Description: This is a study of alternative gender and sexuality in the colonial Andean world, which uses the concept of the third gender to reconsider some key aspects of Andean culture and provides an alternative history and interpretation of the much-maligned aboriginal subjects the Spanish referred to as 'sodomites.'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Transculturating tropes of sexuality, tinkuy, and third gender in the Andes; title: Barbudos, afeminados, and sodomitas : performing masculinity in premodern Spain; title: Decolonizing queer tropes of sexuality : chronicles and myths of conquest; title: From supay huaca to queer mother : revaluing the Andean feminine and androgyne; title: Church and state : inventing queer penitents and tyrannical others; title: Subaltern hybridity? : inca garcilaso and the transculturation of gender and sexuality in the comentarios reales; title: Epilogue: Dancing the tinkuy, mediating difference.