Books by Pete Sigal

What did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.

Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.

This highly innovative book decodes the process through which the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire occurred.