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"May They Not Be Fornicators Equal to These Priests": Postconquest Yucatec Maya Sexual Attitudes
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The Maltese cactus : an autoethnography of the colonization of desire
This article presents an autoethnographic account of an encounter between two men â a Mexican scholar and a British artist â who met in Malta, to examine how post-colonialism influences the seemingly personal experience of erotic desire. The author, a man of indigenous descent, explores how his erotic attraction interweaved with powerful dynamics that were the product of the other manâs European cultural background. He problematizes this attraction by reflecting on the white ethnocentrism that colored his partner-seeking process. This autoethnography analyzes how European colonialism in Mexico affected not only language and religion, but also the deceivingly intimate aspect of erotic desire
Shapes of love in the miracle testimonies of the Virgin of ChiquinquirĂĄ, New Kingdom of Granada, 1587 to 1694
A trilogy of texts composed between 1587 and 1694 memorialize the origin of and early devotion to the Virgin of ChiquinquirĂĄ in the New Kingdom of Granada: an informaciĂłn jurĂdica (original ecclesiastical investigation of reported miracles ordered by the archbishop of BogotĂĄ); a manuscript collection of 234 miracle testimonies, long-lost and never studied until now; and the first published history of the cult. The devotees whose experiences comprise these texts had turned to Mary of ChiquinquirĂĄ with deeply personal needs and received miraculous interventions. Later, they recounted their experiences under oath before witnesses. This essay examines those accounts, finding vestiges of local society and culture and, more importantly, illumination of the testators\u27 enacted feelings about themselves and others. The essay argues that within the intimate space of a spiritual emotional community, miracle testimonies which purport to focus on love for the Virgin of ChiquinquirĂĄ actually reveal a great deal about human love