The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture

by Pete Sigal

Book Overview

Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of "sex" or "sexuality" equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this innovative ethnohistory, Pete Sigal seeks to shed new light on Nahua concepts of the sexual without relying on the modern Western concept of sexuality. Along with clerical documents and other Spanish sources,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235151X
• ISBN13: 9780822351511
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"