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... (e.g., the mockeries of Tezcatlipoca in Tula). Due to its compatibility with the Christian negative valuation of falling and the existence of similar expressions in Spanish, this couplet was adopted by friars to render the concept of sin. The article points to possible ambiguities and confusions...

... and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Urton, Gary 2003 Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted String Records . Austin: University of Texas Press. Sodomy, Sin, and String Writing: The Moral Origins of Andean Khipu Sabine Hyland, St...

... Brockington has filled an important gap in the his- toriography of the Andes, having written a book that should appeal to Latin Americanists, students of the African Diaspora, and specialists in colonial frontiers. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-055 Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women...

... took the missionary teachings concerning proper and improper sexual activities, and through the lens of their own cultural concepts of sexuality and sexual relations they manipulated them for their own purposes. This paper will examine how the knowledge of the “sins of the fathers” served both...

... colonizers interlinked sin and physical space illuminates the process by which colonial authorities made biased value judgments, deeming native peoples and indigenous spaces as sinful. The first case (1728) examines the denunciation and subsequent exoneration of a Spanish resident accused of sodomy...

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... Fiesta de la Virgen in Valladolid (now Morelia), Michoacán, two indigenous Purépecha men later identified as Simpliciano Cuyne and Pedro Quini were caught in flagrante delicto committing the pecado nefando—the nefarious sin of sodomy—in a temascal on the property of the priest Juan Velázquez...

... crises—it could have resulted in the (somehow forced) emancipation of people who were excluded from this precolonial inclusive model of the household. With the goal of eradicating unchristian and sinful practices, the Spaniards intentionally overlooked the fact that polygamy or levirate among...

... Urton argues that both Andean and Mediterranean societies had invented double-­entry bookkeeping before 1532. On the European side, its evolution owed much (as James Aho proposed) to a medieval art of moral accountancy for con- fession. Christian metaphors likening debt to sin and payment...

.../FZP-kill+st who it is a spirit he kills, is killing it at the same time that which ,enheon, a8eti ,arih8andera,i ,enhe-on ,a-rih8-a-ndera,-i FZA+die-st FZA-matter-jv-be mistaken-st it died, is dying all mistake-making in a matter, sinning One used to bear...

...). 12 Only the “healthy doctrine” could cleanse the parish of sin and teach commoners the “articles of our holy faith.” 13 Although both ecclesiastics and Natives understood that efficacious ceremonies alleviated the sick, popular rituals became suspect when Catholic officials replaced them...

... not spoil our lives and commit sin [bikin dosa] all the time. Do not always incite and don’t disobey all the time. If you want to know what happens to people who do not behave like an adult, read Amos 8:12...

... as heaven or a place of future moral reward opposite to hell. As Arnold Wool- worth, a Southern Arapaho told Hilger (1952: 161), ‘‘I never heard of hell until I came in contact with White men One does not accumulate sin in one’s...

... sacrifice, warfare, and sin—a hybrid cultural matrix in which traditional Meso- american concepts intermixed with Catholic ones.10 This article emanates from my current work on sexuality among the early colonial Nahua. By using an ethnohistorical method and linguistic analysis, and sifting...

... 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...

...) –  Porta (door) –  Calacohua (entry to the house) –  Ventana (window) –  Tlanēxtli (window opening) –  Tlapilōni in tepoztli , Tzaccatl (lock) –  Tlaquīlli (whitewashing) –  Tepāntli (wall) –  Tlatepechtoctli (plinth band upon foundations) – Original Sin (detailed explanation). – The book...

... in the camarín indicates the cen- trality of this threat and offers a proscriptive message of the triumph of Christianity. Emblem books explicitly connect snakes and dragons with heresy and sin, featured in imagery of conversion. In the 1551 Lyon edition of Andrea Alciati’s Emblemata, snakes, dragons...

... or otherworldly), and I interpret it as “to bathe people as gods.” 5 Porque querían que los esclavos que se purificasen para representar a los dioses—y era cerimonia de sus ritos y ley y precepto—que fuesen sanos y sin mácula, como se lee en las Sagradas Escrituras de los sacrificios de la ley vieja, que...

... interest is competing Spanish and Andean notions of masculinity and femininity under colonial rule, brought to a head in the form of sodomy allegations pursued by Span- ish conquistadors, administrators, and religious authorities. What these men described as the vice or sin of sodomy...