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The flower and the scorpion : sexuality and ritual in early Nahua culture / Pete Sigal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sigal, Peter Herman, 1964-
- Series:
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nahuas--Social life and customs--16th century.
- Nahuas.
- Nahuas--Rites and ceremonies.
- Nahuas--Sexual behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The bath
- Trash
- Sin
- The warrior goddess
- The phallus and the broom
- The homosexual
- Sex
- Mirrors.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613333919
- 9781283333917
- 1283333910
- 9780822394860
- 0822394863
- OCLC:
- 762101933
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