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Sins against nature : sex and archives in colonial New Spain / Zeb Tortorici.

Author/creator Tortorici, Zeb, 1978- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Descriptionxv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Sex--Social aspects --New Spain.
Sex customs--New Spain --Sources.
Sex crimes--Investigation --New Spain --Sources.
Trials (Sex crimes)--New Spain --Sources.
Criminal justice, Administration of--New Spain --Sources.
Contents Viscerality in the archives : consuming desires -- Impulses of the archive : misinscription and voyeurism -- Archiving the signs of sodomy : bodies and gestures -- To deaden the memory : bestiality and animal erasure -- Archives of negligence : solicitation in the confessional -- Desiring the divine : pollution and pleasure.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Tortorici, Zeb, 1978- Sins against nature. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9780822371625
LCCN 2017051306
ISBN9780822371328 hardcover
ISBN0822371324 hardcover
ISBN9780822371540 paperback
ISBN0822371545 paperback
Standard identifier# 40028319731

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