TY - BOOK ID - 85634336 TI - Queer natives in Latin America : forbidden chapters of colonial history AU - Gontijo, Fabiano S. AU - Arisi, Barbara M. AU - Fernandes, Estevao R. PY - 2021 SN - 3030591336 3030591328 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology. KW - Queer theory. KW - Latin America—History. KW - Imperialism. KW - Social Anthropology. KW - Queer Theory. KW - Latin American History. KW - Imperialism and Colonialism. KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Gender identity KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Indians of South America KW - Indians of Central America KW - Sexual minorities KW - Sexual behavior KW - History. KW - Gender minorities KW - GLBT people KW - GLBTQ people KW - Lesbigay people KW - LBG people KW - LGBT people KW - LGBTQ people KW - Non-heterosexual people KW - Non-heterosexuals KW - Sexual dissidents KW - Minorities KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Meso-America KW - Meso-American Indians KW - Mesoamerica KW - Mesoamerican Indians KW - Pre-Columbian Indians KW - Precolumbian Indians KW - Ethnology KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85634336 AB - This book defies long standing assumptions about indigenous societies in the Americas and shows that non-heteronormative sexualities were already present among native peoples in different regions of what is now Latin America before the arrival of European colonizers. Presenting data collected from both literature and field research, the authors give examples of native queer traditions in different cultural regions, such as Mesoamerica, the Amazon and the Andes, and analyze how colonization gradually imposed the models of sexuality and family organization considered as normal by the European settlers using methods such as forced labor, physical punishments and forced marriages. Building upon post-colonial and queer theories, Queer Natives in Latin America: Forbidden Chapters of Colonial History reveals a little known aspect of the colonization of the Americas: how a bureaucratic-administrative, political and psychological apparatus was created and developed to normalize indigenous sexuality, shaping them to the colonial order. . ER -