| Peter Sigal, Professor
 The relationships between gender, sexuality, and colonialism have intrigued me since I began my first book on Maya sexuality. I recently completed a study on the interaction of writing and sexual representation in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Nahua societies--The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); I am currently co-editing with Neil Whitehead a volume on “ethnopornography,” the relationship between the colonial and ethnographic gaze and sexuality throughout the world; and engaging in research on the position of the hyper-masculinized Aztec warrior in early modern literature from Europe and the Americas. I have moved from studying sexual desires in indigenous communities to examining the early modern cultural processes that created global concepts of modern sexuality, gender, masculinity, and femininity.
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | 234 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708 | Office Phone: | (919) 684-3014 | Email Address: |   | Teaching (Fall 2023):
- HOUSECS 59.23, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP)
Synopsis
- Perkins 065, W 07:30 PM-08:45 PM
- HISTORY 89S.02, FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP)
Synopsis
- Class Bldg 229, W 01:40 PM-04:10 PM
- (also cross-listed as ETHICS 89S.07, GSF 89S.04, SXL 89S.02)
- HISTORY 370.01, AZTECS AND MAYANS
Synopsis
- Class Bldg 103, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- (also cross-listed as MEDREN 270.01)
- Education:
Ph.D. | University of California - Los Angeles | 1995 |
M.A. | University of California - Los Angeles | 1992 |
B.A. | Bucknell University | 1986 |
- Specialties:
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Comparative Colonial Studies
Gender Military History Medieval and Early Modern History Global Transnational History Cultural History Global and Comparative Latin America and the Caribbean
- Research Interests:
The relationships between gender, sexuality, and colonialism have intrigued me since I began my first book on Maya sexuality. I recently completed a study on the interaction of writing and sexual representation in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Nahua societies--The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); I am currently co-editing with Neil Whitehead a volume on “ethnopornography,” the relationship between the colonial and ethnographic gaze and sexuality throughout the world; and engaging in research on the position of the hyper-masculinized Aztec warrior in early modern literature from Europe and the Americas. I have moved from studying sexual desires in indigenous communities to examining the early modern cultural processes that created global concepts of modern sexuality, gender, masculinity, and femininity.
- Areas of Interest:
- Colonial Latin America
Indigenous Peoples of Latin America The History of Sexuality
- Keywords:
- Anthropology • Cross-Cultural Comparison • Gender • Historiography • History, 16th Century • History, 17th Century • History, 18th Century • History, 19th Century • History, 20th Century • Internationality • Language • Latin America • Men's Health • queer theory • Queer Theory • Religion • Sexual Behavior • Sexuality • Social Change • Women's Health
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Farren Yero
- Priya D. Shah
- Caroline Garriott
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Sigal, P, The flower and the scorpion: Sexuality and ritual in early nahua culture, Latin America Otherwise
(December, 2011),
pp. 1-361, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822351511 [ViewProduct.php] [abs]
- Sigal, P, Imagining Cihuacoatl: Mexica Masculinity and Spanish Colonization,
Gender & History, vol. 22 no. 3
(November, 2010),
pp. 538-563, WILEY (Republished in Historicising Gender and Sexuality. Kevin P. Murphy and Jennifer M. Spear, eds. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.) [doi] [abs]
- Sigal, P, Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality.,
American Historical Review, vol. 114 no. 5
(December, 2009),
pp. 1340-1353, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0002-8762 [20425925], [doi]
- Sigal, P, Queer Nahuatl: Sahagún's faggots and sodomites, lesbians and hermaphrodites,
Ethnohistory, vol. 54 no. 1
(December, 2007),
pp. 9-34, Duke University Press, ISSN 0014-1801 (Republished in Indigenous Religions. Steven Hunt, ed. London: Ashgate, 2010.) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- Sigal, P, Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica, edited by Sigal, P; Chuchiak, J,
Ethnohistory, vol. 54 no. 1
(January, 2007)
- Sigal, P, The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin: Homosexualities in Early Colonial Nahua Society,
The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 85 no. 4
(November, 2005),
pp. 555-593, Duke University Press, ISSN 0018-2168 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Sigal, P, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America
(2003), University of Chicago Press [html]
- Sigal, P, To Cross the Sexual Borderlands: The History of Sexuality in the Americas,
Radical History Review, vol. 82
(2002),
pp. 171-185 [repository]
- Sigal, P, Gender, male homosexuality, and power in colonial Yucatán,
Latin American Perspectives, vol. 29 no. 2
(January, 2002),
pp. 24-40, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0094-582X [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- Sigal, P, From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire
(2000), University of Texas Press [sigfro]
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