From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire by Pete Sigal

From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire

Pete Sigal

344 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they n...

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