The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture by Pete Sigal

The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture

Latin America Otherwise

Pete Sigal

380 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of "sex" or "sexuality" equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this inno...

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