Peter Sigal
Professor in the Department of History
Overview
The relationships between gender, sexuality, and colonialism have intrigued me since I began my first book on Maya sexuality. I recently completed a study on the interaction of writing and sexual representation in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Nahua societies--The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); I am currently co-editing with Neil Whitehead a volume on “ethnopornography,” the relationship between the colonial and ethnographic gaze and sexuality throughout the world; and engaging in research on the position of the hyper-masculinized Aztec warrior in early modern literature from Europe and the Americas. I have moved from studying sexual desires in indigenous communities to examining the early modern cultural processes that created global concepts of modern sexuality, gender, masculinity, and femininity.
Sigal, P. The flower and the scorpion: Sexuality and ritual in early nahua culture. December 1, 2011.
Sigal, PH, Whitehead, N, Larkins, ER, and Tortorici, Z. Ethnopornography. University Press of Colorado, 2010.
Sigal, PH, and Green, JN. Re-Gendering Latin America. 2005.
Sigal, P. Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Sigal, P. From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire. University of Texas Press, 2000.
Sigal, P. "Sodomy." Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation. University of Texas Press, 2013.
Sigal, P. "Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos." Historicising Gender and Sexuality. September 9, 2011. 12-37. Full Text
Sigal, P. "Colonial Reflections/Magical Imaginations: Pedro Lasch’s Tezcatlipoca." Black Mirror/Espejo Negro. Ed. P Lasch. 2010.
Sigal, P. "The Perfumed Man: Sacrifice, Penetration, and the Feminization of the Male Body in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica." Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler. Ed. P Arnade and M Rocke. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2008. 299-316.
Sigal, P. "Sexuality in Maya and Nahuatl Sources." Sources And Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory. Ed. J Lockhart, L Sousa, and S Wood. 2007.
Sigal, P. "(Homo)Sexual Desire and Masculine Power in Colonial Latin America: Notes Toward an Integrated Analysis." Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Ed. P Sigal. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Sigal, P. "Gendered Power, the Hybrid Self, and Homosexual Desire in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Yucatan." Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Ed. P Sigal. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
"In This Issue." Hispanic American Historical Review 96.3 (August 2016): 415-419. Full Text
Sigal, P, Restall, M, Wood, S, and Pizzigoni, C. "James Lockhart (1933-2014) Obituary." HAHR-HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 95.2 (May 2015): 335-339. Full Text
Sigal, P. "Neil L. Whitehead (1956-2012)." ETHNOHISTORY 59.3 (2012): 631-633. Full Text
Sigal, P. "Imagining Cihuacoatl: Mexica Masculinity and Spanish Colonization." Gender & History 22 (November 2010): 538-563.
Sigal, P. "Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos." Gender and History 22.3 (November 1, 2010): 538-563. Full Text
Sigal, P. "Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality." Am Hist Rev 114.5 (December 2009): 1340-1353.
Sigal, P. "AHR forum latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality." American Historical Review 114.5 (December 1, 2009): 1340-1353. Full Text
Sigal, P. "Review of The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. By Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006)." Hispanic American Historical Review 88 (May 2008). (Review)
Sigal, P. "The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya." Hispanic American Historical Review 88.2 (May 1, 2008): 302-303. Full Text
Sigal, P, and Chuchiak, JF. "Ethnohistory: Guest Editors' Introduction." Ethnohistory 54.1 (December 1, 2007): 3-8. Full Text