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- Country/Region of Manufacture
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822371545
ISBN-13
9780822371540
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239652654
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Sins Against Nature : Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
Publication Year
2018
Subject
Latin America / Mexico, Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Gender Studies, General, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Criminology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-051306
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Tortorici's intimate narration of both the case and his own archive experience opens consideration and conversation of fundamental ethical questions in the discipline.... The seduction, the titillation of archival discovery is not limited to research on sex. For many historians, it is the experience of research itself. And for that reason, Sins against Nature holds broad appeal, not only for colonial Latin Americanists or historians of sexuality but also for anyone teaching or practicing the craft of history., You will never forget your first time reading Zeb Tortorici's excellent book. . . . There is so much to praise in Sins Against Nature that it is difficult to know where to begin. . . . Sins Against Nature belongs in your hands and on your bookshelf., Tortorici has provided us with one of the best single books on the history of Latin American homosexuality.... It will become a classic of queer history in Mexican historiography., Sins against Nature fills a critical need for queer methodological approaches to colonial Spanish American history. Tortorici conducts rigorous and historically specific analyses of colonial Spanish America while insisting on a self-reflexive and fluid approach to the research process itself. The book provides scholars both a way for thinking about archives, sexuality, and desire under Spanish colonialism and, as important, guidance on the ethics and implications of historical research in the field and beyond., Based on an astonishing amount of research that scholars will mine for decades (one wonders if Zeb Tortorici has gone to every single archive and library in all of Mexico), Sins against Nature is a rigorously argued work that takes the field to the next theoretical and methodological level., This book stayed with me long after I had read it. Tortorici has a gift for bringing to life the people involved in these archival cases and humanizing many of them and the communities from which they came., Tortorici's innovative work is essential reading for historians of colonial sexuality, detailing as it does the ways in which the 'unnatural' was defined and catalogued in New Spain., Tortorici has produced a well-written and deeply-researched book that will spark conversations, appeal to specialists, and work well in graduate seminars on historical methods and gender and sexuality in colonial Latin America., Sins Against Nature offers a strikingly original contribution to the understanding of histories of sexuality in colonial New Spain. Zeb Tortorici's supple readings of records of sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation reveal radically divergent orientations to knowledge, affect, and reason at the very heart of the colonial archive. This is a work of compelling historical scholarship--interdisciplinary, imaginative, meticulous, and critically self-reflexive., Sins Against Nature is a true tour de force. Zeb Tortorici has painstakingly searched numerous archives in Mexico. He has provided detailed notes and has integrated significant theoretical findings into his analysis. Tortorici has written an outstanding book that will, no doubt, shape the scholarly debates within Latin American history and sexuality studies for many years to come., The cases in Sins against Nature . . . are equally rich in their layering of cultural complexity: religious versus secular, indigenous versus colonial, action versus desire. Tortorici helps us appreciate the challenges of understanding sexuality, not only in colonial New Spain but also in the present., Tortorici has written an expansive, thoughtful, provocative, and innovative encyclopedic work. . . . While Tortorici generously invites his readers to peruse the documents themselves in a digital archive that he has made accessible, his book should stand for many years as an indispensable contribution to the history of so-called unnatural sexuality in New Spain. . . . With this book, Tortorici has singlehandedly raised the historiographical standard for the topic of viceregal sexuality and also made an important contribution to archival theory.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
392.6097253
Table Of Content
A Note on Translation ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural 1 1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires 25 2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism 46 3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures 84 4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure 124 5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional 161 6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure 197 Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction 233 Appendix 255 List of Archives 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 297 Index 309
Synopsis
Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept "against nature" to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories., In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra natura --against nature--to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, masturbation, erotic religious visions, priestly solicitation of sex during confession, and other forms of "unnatural" sex. Archival traces of the visceral reactions of witnesses, the accused, colonial authorities, notaries, translators, and others in these records demonstrate the primacy of affect and its importance to the Spanish documentation and regulation of these sins against nature. In foregrounding the logic that dictated which crimes were recorded and how they are mediated through the colonial archive, Tortorici recasts Iberian Atlantic history through the prism of the unnatural while showing how archives destabilize the bodies, desires, and social categories on which the history of sexuality is based.
LC Classification Number
HQ18.N458T67 2018
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