Introduction: Transculturating tropes of sexuality, tinkuy, and third gender in the Andes -- Barbudos, afeminados, and sodomitas : performing masculinity in premodern Spain -- Decolonizing queer tropes of sexuality : chronicles and myths of conquest -- From supay huaca to queer mother : revaluing the Andean feminine and androgyne -- Church and state : inventing queer penitents and tyrannical others -- Subaltern hybridity? : Inca Garcilaso and the transculturation of gender and sexuality in the Comentarios reales -- Dancing the tinkuy, mediating difference
Summary
This is a study of alternative gender and sexuality in the colonial Andean world, which uses the concept of the third gender to reconsider some key aspects of Andean culture and provides an alternative history and interpretation of the much-maligned aboriginal subjects the Spanish referred to as 'sodomites.'
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index
