Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

by Zeb Tortorici

Book Overview

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822371545
• ISBN13: 9780822371540
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"