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Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America

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Robert Aldrich
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 216–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-1-216
Published: 01 January 2004
...Robert Aldrich Edited by Pete Sigal. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. viii +223 pp., introduction, index. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.) 2004 216 Book Reviews Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America...
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Bridging Biology and Ethnohistory: A Case for Collaboration

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Allison Caplan, James M. Maley, John E. McCormack
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 355–382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8266379
Published: 01 July 2020
... family are well known for the male’s long, shimmering, iridescent rump feathers, technically called upper-tail coverts (Collar and Sharpe 2016 ), which are often incorrectly described as tail feathers. The birds molt these feathers every year, shedding and regrowing these spectacular plumes. Males...
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Policing the Pueblo: Vagrancy and Indigenous Citizenship in Oaxaca, 1848–1876

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Luis Sánchez-López
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 385–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10443483
Published: 01 July 2023
... and Indigenous customs meshed to produce modern Mexican citizenship. This study examines the construction of Mexican citizenship through Zapotec people’s experiences with vagrancy laws. For Indigenous peoples, two forms of citizenship existed: a republican citizenship that was reserved for all adult males...
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Indian-Styled Mascots, Masculinity, and the Manipulated Indian Body: Chief Illiniwek and the Embodiment of Tradition

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Michael Taylor
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 119–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681750
Published: 01 January 2015
...Michael Taylor In the creation and use of ethnicized sports team mascots such as those based on notions of the constructed idealized Indianness of Native Americans, white male identity is coupled to their use and presentation. From historical to contemporary contexts of such use, the body...
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“Heran Todos Putos”: Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Early Colonial Mexico

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Zeb Tortorici
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 35–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-039
Published: 01 January 2007
... further demonstrates how Spaniards conceptualized sodomy in the highly gendered terms of activity and passivity that suggested domination and submission, and how this model of male-male sexual relations is inadequate and problematic for understanding historical realities. American Society...
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The Struggle for Mapuche Shamans' Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Southern Chile

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Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 489–533.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-3-489
Published: 01 July 2004
...Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Spanish and criollo soldiers in what is now Chile viewed colonial Mapuche and especially male shamans ( machi weye ) as perverse sodomites engaged in devil worship. I analyze the gender identities of male and female machi in the colonial period by considering ethnic, gender...
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“Hard Working, Orderly Little Women”: Mayan Vendors and Marketplace Struggles in Early-Twentieth-Century Guatemala

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David Carey, Jr.
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 579–607.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-014
Published: 01 October 2008
... for their own rights. Even though the state's structures were based on patriarchal and racist notions of authority, they offered Mayan women considerable space to contest male, ladino, and elite power. American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 “Hard Working, Orderly Little Women”: Mayan Vendors...
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“I Am Just a Tiçitl ”: Decolonizing Central Mexican Nahua Female Healers, 1535–1635

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Edward Anthony Polanco
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 441–463.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4451410
Published: 01 July 2018
...Edward Anthony Polanco Abstract Since the sixteenth century, Central Mexican tiçiyotl (Nahua healing knowledge) has been portrayed as a male-dominated system akin to Western medicine. This has made Nahua women invisible in broader discussions of tiçiyotl. Though the historiography acknowledges...
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Cacicas , Escribanos , and Landholders: Indigenous Women’s Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703–1832

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Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 297–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4383750
Published: 01 April 2018
... of decline and indicates escribanos, indigenous male officials, acknowledged and fostered women’s status and autonomy. Furthermore, Nahua writers themselves provide evidence of how, despite the social upheaval of this transitional period away from colonial rule, women counted on the support of indigenous...
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Gendered Mobilities: Performing Masculinities in the Late Eighteenth-Century Mobile Fur Trade Community

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Amélie Allard
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 75–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4260665
Published: 01 January 2018
... of the late eighteenth century. It is argued that in this overwhelmingly male environment, the gendering of daily practices such as foodways and use of space worked in complex, dynamic ways and at multiple levels along lines of rank, experience, and, to some extent, ethnicity. Differing masculine ideals...
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The Return of the Kingdom: Agama and the Millennium among the Imyan of Irian Jaya, Indonesia

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Jaap Timmer
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 29–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-29
Published: 01 January 2000
..., relationships with sky deities, and a long history of contact with the kingdom of Sailolof, a tributary principality of the North Moluccan sultanate of Tidore. By analyzing the present-day Imyan fear of a growing divide between heaven and earth, this article shows how male Imyans reconcile their current...
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“They Will Know in the End That We Are Men”: Gunpowder and Gendered Discourse in Creek-British Diplomacy, 1763–1776

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Jennifer Monroe McCutchen
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 259–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10443393
Published: 01 July 2023
... communicated with one another to achieve their respective goals following the Seven Years’ War. The lens of gunpowder, an exclusively male commodity that could only be produced in Europe, allows ethnohistorians to explore how Upper Creek men dealt with the problem of dependence while attempting to retain power...
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Calling Moose: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Example of Northern Tutchone Scapulimancy from Fort Selkirk, Yukon

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Victoria Elena Castillo
Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 41–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11463305
Published: 01 January 2025
... provides evidence of early contact period Northern Tutchone hunting techniques and scapulimancy. A zoomorphic etching on the surface of the scapula depicts a large male ungulate, probably a moose, along with an arrow in flight by its head. To understand the context and significance of this artifact...
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Forced and Forest Labor Regimes in Colonial Madagascar, 1926-1936

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Genese Sodikoff
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 407–435.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-2-407
Published: 01 April 2005
...Genese Sodikoff This article centers on labor in Madagascar and the ways in which colonial labor regimes have shaped forest conservation efforts. During the interwar period, the French colonial state launched two initiatives: it reinvigorated forest conservation measures and it conscripted male...
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Queer Nahuatl: Sahagún's Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites

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Pete Sigal
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 9–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-038
Published: 01 January 2007
..., and gender inversions in Nahua society at the time of the Spanish conquest. The methodology used combines close narrative analysis with intellectual genealogy. The author argues that decoding the texts in this way allows us to uncover a cross-dressing male who engaged in “passive” homosexual acts and had...
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Figure 2 Alt text. John Asicona sits at a table with a hat in front of him during a funeral for the Brotherhood of the Rosary. In the background, Pedro Mendoza kneels by candles. A figure of the Virgin Mary is visible.

Juan Asicona, departed b’aal martoma of the Cofradía del Rosario Vinaq...

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Published: 01 January 2025
Figure 2. Juan Asicona, departed b’aal martoma of the Cofradía del Rosario Vinaq . In the background: figure of the Virgin Mary in his male clothes ( cotón ) and Pedro Mendoza performing costumbre . Photograph by Monika Banach. More
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From Sodomy to Superstition: The Active Pathic and Bodily Transgressions in New Spain

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Laura A. Lewis
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 129–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-041
Published: 01 January 2007
... as an unspeakable sin and figuratively referred to male same-sex relations, particularly to sodomy (sodomía), understood as anal penetration.1 Both of the men had their pants pulled down, Herrera testified, and the man on top had covered the one below with his cloak (capa). Herrera did not dare get any...
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Ethnicity, Demography, and Estate Management in Sixteenth-Century Yucay

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R. Alan Covey, Christina M. Elson
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 303–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-064
Published: 01 April 2007
... had been constructed for it (Betancur Col- lection, vol. 7, fols. 283v–84). Female ritual specialists (mamakuna) were assigned to the mummy, and a special contingent of retainers and male ritual specialists presented the mummy with food and drink and carried it in a litter to important...
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“That Monster of Nature”: Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a “Hermaphrodite” in Late Colonial Guatemala

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Martha Few
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 159–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-042
Published: 01 January 2007
... of sexuality, worked to legitimize medicine’s authority, and his own as a medical practitioner, to judge cases of sexual ambiguity. In the process, the medical description of Aguilar and her anatomy became a way to circulate explicit information about male and female genitalia...
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It Happened on the Way to the Temascal and Other Stories: Desiring the Illicit in Colonial Spanish America

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Kimberly Gauderman
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 177–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-043
Published: 01 January 2007
... male-male sexual relations. For this reason, he suggests, indigenous sexuality remained distinct from the highly gendered ways that Spaniards conceptualized sodomy. His research also finds evidence of a sodomitical culture that seemed generally tolerated by local society. Tortorici, like...
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