From Moon Goddesses to Virgins : : The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire / / Pete Sigal.
For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they neither fully abandoned these views nor completely ado...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES ON TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION
- ONE Searching for the Moon Goddess
- TWO Religion and Family
- THREE Framing Maya Sexual Desire
- FOUR Fornicating with Priests, Communicating with Gods
- FIVE The Unvirgin Virgin
- SIX Gender, Lineage, and the Blood of the Rulers
- SEVEN Blood, Semen, and Ritual
- EIGHT Transsexuality and the Floating Phallus
- NINE Ritualized Bisexuality
- TEN Finding the Virgin Mary
- NOTES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX