..., students of the histories of disease and depopulation, and by those seeking to under- stand the tremendous torments brought on by the European colonization of the Americas. Sex, Sexuality...

... in positions of authority and power across the Americas. On Africa, Karen Brodkin’s Sisters and Wives: The Past and Future of Sexual Equality (West- port, cn, 1979) is still of interest, and more recently, Nancy Rose Hunt, Tessie P...

... it, contextualizing it, locating it within a colonial apparatus of state and patri- archal power and Euro-Canadian middle-class fears of sexual immorality and race suicide, and illustrating how it does not advance the well-being of all does little to actually undermine the stability of monogamy as ideal...

..., and power dynamics. I contrast colonial Mapuche (Reche) perceptions of machi as co-gender specialists having alternative sexualities with the discourses of sodomy, sorcery, and effeminacy used by Spanish and criollo soldiers and Jesuit priests. I explore the process by which the categories of the two groups...

... considers Esparragosa's report on Aguilar's sexual ambiguity and his efforts to classify her. The first section analyzes the scope and purpose of the report and places Esparragosa's anatomical and physiological assertions within the context of Enlightenment-era understandings of sexuality and sexual...

...Gray Whaley This article analyzes social change in the emerging colonial world of the lower Columbia River from 1805 to 1838, particularly regarding gender and sexuality. It teases out distinctions among formal marriages, informal “custom of the country” arrangements, the exercise of sexual...

...Catherine Cocks Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920. By Pablo Mitchell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xv + 235 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.) American...

...John F. Schwaller The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture. By Sigal Pete . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xvi + 361 pp., preface, illustrations, appendix, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index . $94.95 cloth, $25.95 paper...

... power which they used to inflict ‘‘excessive punishment, torture, or sexual abuse’’ to discourage Indian students from practicing their religion (77). Similarly, church- and government-sponsored medical programs...

...John F. Chuchiak, IV Differing from the rapid political, economic, and social conquests, the conquest of indigenous sexuality was often a long and deeply contested arena of indigenous-Spanish encounters. The roots of what can be called the “sexual conquest” of the Yucatec Maya began...

...Sarah N. Saffa Abstract Utilizing criminal records from the secular courts, this article examines incidents of sexual relations between parents and their biological children or stepchildren—both of which were considered incestuous under Spanish law—to explore how marriage and the marital...

.... The second case (1731) highlights the tensions between spaces regarded as civilized and other areas removed from the purview of the Spanish state that colonizers viewed as morally suspect. The third case (1775) reveals how colonial authorities attempted to normalize local denizens’ sexual comportment...

...Zeb Tortorici This essay focuses on a 1604 document from Morelia's criminal archive dealing initially with the prosecution of two Purépecha men accused of committing sodomy in a temascal . Attention is paid to individual testimonies and details surrounding sexual acts between the men...

...Sabine Hyland According to the anonymous seventeenth-century author of the Quito Manuscript, ancient Andeans once possessed a writing system ( qillqa ) that they replaced with knotted strings ( khipu ) as part of the religious and sexual reform of their nation. The manuscript's redactor, Fernando...

... vehicle of women's ritual power, used as the basis for magical potions to cast supernatural illness, in sexual witchcraft practices, and even, at times, as a flash point for women's disorderly behavior in public settings. The gendered associations of chocolate with ritual power and disorder in Guatemala...

...Laura A. Lewis Engaging primary documents and scholarly debates, this article examines an array of practices in colonial Mexico as it undertakes a discursive account of how gender ideologies informed the politics of discipline and a range of behaviors from atypical sexuality to cross-dressing...

... communities. Less attention has been paid the pre–gold rush period, in which a more complex social and sexual milieu emerged, influenced by the labor and familial relations of the fur trade. In California's Central Valley, white and Native Hawaiian settlers pursued relationships with Plains Miwok– and Valley...

...Paul Charney This article is a detailed analysis of thirteen wills, perhaps fitting for such a short time span. It explores how Andean men and women of the Lima Valley crafted their own hybrid counter-narrative as manifested by their reconstituted families, inheritance practices, sexual behavior...

...Pete Sigal This article provides a method for interpreting the place of sexuality in texts that defy analysis. The author uses one source, the Florentine Codex , a large and complex bilingual Nahuatl and Spanish document, to decipher some elements about cross-dressing individuals, homosexualities...

... particular acts as sinful and criminal was no more successful at controlling sexuality in indigenous America than it had been in Europe. As all these authors agree, the “sexual conquest” is connected to other relations of authority in Spanish America and, like other colonial projects, the “colo...