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In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra natura—against nature—to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, masturbation, erotic religious visions, priestly solicitation of sex during confession, and other forms of "unnatural" sex. Archival traces of the visceral reactions of witnesses, the accused, colonial authorities, notaries, translators, and others in these records demonstrate the primacy of affect and its importance to the Spanish documentation and regulation of these sins against nature. In foregrounding the logic that dictated which crimes were recorded and how they are mediated through the colonial archive, Tortorici recasts Iberian Atlantic history through the prism of the unnatural while showing how archives destabilize the bodies, desires, and social categories on which the history of sexuality is based.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2018Print ISBN
9780822371540, 9780822371328eBook ISBN
9780822371625IMPULSES
OF
THE
ARCHIVE
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notaries.
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case,
like
most,
is
thus
a
composite
document
and
a
col-
laborative
effort,
compiled
throughout
(and
likely
aſter)
the
investigation
and
sentencing.
at
document
told
the
following
story.
At
around
2:00
p.m.
on
August 15,
1604,
the
day
of
the
local
Feast
of
the
Virgin
in
Valladolid
(now
Morelia),
Michoacán,
two
indigenous
Purépecha
men,
later
identified
as
Cuyne
and
Quini,
were
caught
in
flagrante
delicto.
ey
were
committing
the
nefarious
sin
in
a
temascal
—a
type
of
enclosed,
pre-Hispanic
steam
bath
or
sauna
used
widely
by
Mesoamerican
peoples
for
its
ritualistic,
ceremonial,
and
thera-
peutic
effects.
us,
at
the
outset
of
this
criminal
case,
we
see
the
colonial
influence,
shiſting
the
temascal
from
a
Mesoamerican
space
of
purity
and
cleanliness
to
one
that
harbored
the
potential
for
the
sins
of
lust.
e
temascal
was
housed
on
the
property
of
a
priest,
Juan
Velázquez
Rangel.
2
Fig
2.1
Title
page
of
the
1604
sodomy
trial
transcript
of
Simpli-
ciano
Cuyne
and
Pedro
Quini.
Courtesy
of
the
Archivo
Histórico
Municipal
de
Morelia,
Morelia,
Mexico.
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,
caja
30,
exp.
20,
fol.
1.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- A Note on Translation
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural
- 1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires
- 2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism
- 3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures
- 4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure
- 5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional
- 6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure
- Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction
- Appendix
- List of Archives
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index