Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Notes on Transcription and Translation
• Searching for the Moon Goddess
  • To Desire the Moon Goddess
  • Sexual Desire
  • Colonial Maya Sexual Acts
  • Colonial Maya Sexual Ideas
  • The Historian's Method
• Religion and Family
  • Religion
  • Family
  • Revisiting Hybridity
• Framing Maya Sexual Desire
  • Defining the Hybrid Cultural Matrix
  • Sex,Gender,and War
  • Colonizing Sin
  • Performing the Hybrid
• Fornicating with Priests, Communicating with Gods
  • Having Sex in a Church
  • Strategic Inversions
  • Excess Sex: Adultery, Rape, and the Commoners
  • Thinking of Sex
• The Unvirgin Virgin
  • The Moon Goddess
  • The Appearance of the Virgin Mary
  • The Moon Goddess and the Virgin
  • The Language of Virginity
  • The Resilience of the Moon Goddess
• Gender, Lineage, and the Blood of the Rulers
  • Bodies of Kings
  • The Blood of the Name
  • Blood, Naming,and Masculinity
• Blood, Semen, and Ritual
  • Blood of the Vagina
  • Blood of the Penis
  • Phallic Motions and Transsexual Bodies
  • Gendered Blood and Transsexual Bodies
• Transsexuality and the Floating Phallus
  • The Phallus without a Body
  • Transsexuality
  • Colonialism, Oedipus, and the Floating Phallus
• Ritualized Bisexuality
  • Sodomites, Homosexuals, Bisexuals
  • Activity and Passivity
  • Pedagogy, Pederasty,and Political Power
  • Sexual Control
• Finding the Virgin Mary
  • Sexual Acts, Symbols, and Desires
  • Theorizing Hybridity and Sexuality
• Notes
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index

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Decodes the process through which the Maya adapted their sex-life under colonial rule

About the Author

Pete Sigal is Professor of History at Duke University.

Reviews

"This is a bold, fascinating, often highly original contribution to the field of Maya studies, and Maya colonial ethnohistory in particular... Because of its subject matter, it will appeal to both specialists in Latin American history and academic and non-academic readers interested in the study of sexuality." -Susan Kellogg, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston