Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture
by
Michael J. Horswell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments...