Publications of Peter Sigal

Books

  1. Sigal, P, From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire (2000), University of Texas Press
  2. Sigal, P, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America (2003), University of Chicago Press
  3. with Sigal, PH; Green, JN, Re-Gendering Latin America, vol. 16 no. 1 (2005)
  4. Sigal, P, The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture, Latin America Otherwise (2011), pp. 1-361, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822351511
  5. Sigal, P; Tortorici, Z; Whitehead, NL, Ethnopornography Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge (December, 2019), Duke University Press Books, ISBN 9781478003847

Journal Articles

  1. Restall, M; Sigal, P, ’May They Not Be Fornicators Equal to These Priests’: Postconquest Yucatec Maya Sexual Attitudes, UCLA Historical Journal, vol. 12 (1992), pp. 91-121
  2. Sigal, P, The politicization of pederasty among the colonial Yucatecan Maya, JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, vol. 8 no. 1 (1997), pp. 1-24, ISSN 1043-4070
  3. Sigal, P, Ethnohistory and Homosexual Desire: A Review of Recent Works, Ethnohistory, vol. 45 no. 1 (1998), pp. 135-141
  4. Sigal, P, Review of Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice. by Merry E. Weisner-Hanks (New York: Routledge, 2000), American Historical Review, vol. 106 (2001)
  5. Sigal, P, Review of The Emperor’s Mirror: Understanding Cultures through Primary Sources. by Russell J. Barber and Frances F. Berdan (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998), Ethnohistory, vol. 48 (2001)
  6. Sigal, P, Review of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. by James N. Green (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999), Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 42 (2002)
  7. Sigal, P, Mexico’s Indigenous Past. by Alfredo López austin and Leonardo Lópex Lugan. Trans. Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), H-LatinAm (2002)
  8. Sigal, P, To Cross the Sexual Borderlands: The History of Sexuality in the Americas, Radical History Review, vol. 82 (2002), pp. 171-185
  9. 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
  10. Sigal, P, Review of Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, special issue of Hispanic American Historical Review, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, vol. 14 (2003)
  11. Sigal, P, Review of The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, c. 1901. by Robert McKee Irwin, Eward J. McCaughan, and Michaelle Rocio Nasser, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), American Historical Review, vol. 109 (2004)
  12. Sigal, P, The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin: Homosexualities in Early Colonial Nahua Society, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 85 no. 4 (November, 2005), pp. 555-593, Duke University Press, ISSN 0018-2168
  13. Sigal, P, Review of False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico. by Nora E. Jaffary (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), American Historical Review, vol. 111 (February, 2006)
  14. Sigal, P, NORA E. JAFFARY. False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico. (Engendering Latin America.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 257. $49.95, The American Historical Review, vol. 111 no. 1 (February, 2006), pp. 239-240, Oxford University Press (OUP)
  15. Sigal, P, The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN REVIEW, vol. 16 no. 1 (2007), pp. 127-129
  16. Sigal, P, Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica, edited by Sigal, P; Chuchiak, J, Ethnohistory, vol. 54 no. 1 (January, 2007)
  17. Sigal, P, Review of The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. By Osvaldo F. Pardo (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 16 (June, 2007)
  18. 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.)
  19. Sigal, P; Chuchiak IV, JF, Ethnohistory: Guest Editors' Introduction, Ethnohistory, vol. 54 no. 1 (December, 2007), pp. 3-8, Duke University Press
  20. Sigal, P, Review of The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. By Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 88 (May, 2008)
  21. Sigal, P, The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 88 no. 2 (May, 2008), pp. 302-303, Duke University Press
  22. Sigal, P, Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality., The American historical review, vol. 114 no. 5 (December, 2009), pp. 1340-1353, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0002-8762
  23. 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.)
  24. Sigal, P, Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos, Gender and History, vol. 22 no. 3 (November, 2010), pp. 538-563
  25. Sigal, P, Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012), Ethnohistory, vol. 59 no. 3 (July, 2012), pp. 631-633, Duke University Press, ISSN 0014-1801 (Obituary.)
  26. Sigal, P; Restall, M; Wood, S; Pizzigoni, C, James Lockhart (1933–2014), Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 95 no. 2 (May, 2015), pp. 335-339, Duke University Press
  27. Sigal, P, In this issue, HAHR - Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 96 no. 3 (August, 2016), pp. 415-419, Duke University Press
  28. Sigal, P, Making maya men fantasy, voyeurism, and perverted penetration, GLQ, vol. 26 no. 1 (January, 2020), pp. 1-34

Book Chapters

  1. Sigal, P, Gendered Power, the Hybrid Self, and Homosexual Desire in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Yucatan, in Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, edited by Sigal, P (2003), University of Chicago Press
  2. Sigal, P, (Homo)Sexual Desire and Masculine Power in Colonial Latin America: Notes Toward an Integrated Analysis, in Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, edited by Sigal, P (2003), University of Chicago Press
  3. Sigal, P, Sexuality in Maya and Nahuatl Sources, in Sources And Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, edited by Lockhart, J; Sousa, L; Wood, S (2007) (E-published at http://whp.uoregon.edu/Lockhart/index.html.)
  4. Sigal, P, The Perfumed Man: Sacrifice, Penetration, and the Feminization of the Male Body in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica, in Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler, edited by Arnade, P; Rocke, M (2008), pp. 299-316, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, ISBN 9780772720474
  5. Sigal, P, Colonial Reflections/Magical Imaginations: Pedro Lasch’s Tezcatlipoca, in Black Mirror/Espejo Negro, edited by Lasch, P (2010)
  6. Sigal, P, Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos, in Historicising Gender and Sexuality (September, 2011), pp. 12-37, BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, ISBN 9781444339444
  7. Sigal, P, Sodomy, in Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation (2013), University of Texas Press
  8. Sigal, P, Unnatural Sex? Epilogue, in SEXUALITY AND THE UNNATURAL IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA (2016), pp. 213-224, ISBN 978-0-520-28815-7
  9. Sigal, P, Queer Náhuatl: Sahagún’s Faggots and Sodomites, Lesbians and Hermaphrodites, in Indigenous Religions (January, 2017), pp. 321-346, ISBN 9780754629603
  10. Sigal, P, Franciscan Voyeurism in Sixteenth---Century New Spain, in ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY (2020), pp. 139-168, ISBN 978-1-4780-0384-7
  11. Sigal, P; Tortorici, Z; Whitehead, NL, Ethnopornography as Methodology and Critique Merging the Ethno--, the Porno--, and the --Graphos INTRODUCTION |, in ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY (2020), pp. 1-37, ISBN 978-1-4780-0384-7

Book Reviews

  1. P. Sigal, The Emperor's Mirror: Understanding Cultures through Primary Sources. by Russell J. Barber and Frances F. Berdan (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998), Ethnohistory, vol. 48 no. 4 (2001)
  2. P. Sigal, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice. by Merry E. Weisner-Hanks (New York: Routledge, 2000), American Historical Review, vol. 106 no. 3 (2001)
  3. P. Sigal, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. by James N. Green (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999), Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 42 (2002)
  4. Gender and Sexuality in Latin America," special issue of Hispanic American Historical Review 81:3-4 (August-November 2001), Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, vol. 14 no. 1 (2003)
  5. The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, c. 1901. by Robert McKee Irwin, Eward J. McCaughan, and Michaelle Rocio Nasser, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), American Historical Review, vol. 109 no. 4 (2004)