Queer Natives in Latin America by Fabiano S. Gontijo & Barbara M. Arisi & Estêvão R. Fernandes

Author:Fabiano S. Gontijo & Barbara M. Arisi & Estêvão R. Fernandes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030591335
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

In the Amazon so named, imagined, feared, and venerated, the need was thus established to dominate the native populations to assuage them to economic, political, and administrative interests, on the one hand, and on the other, to the missionary interests of Christianity between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, but also, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the classification and disciplinary interests of the Science and the capitalist bourgeoisie. The danger began to come not only from the supposed Amazons and their unbridled femininity but also from the libidinous practices “against nature” that abounded in the accounts of the countless travelers who journeyed through the region until the nineteenth century (Fernandes 2015; Fernandes and Arisi 2017). In these accounts, the “Amazons” become, not only feared warriors but are sexually associated with other women who dismiss men, as we can see in the Tratado da Terra do Brasil (Treaty of the Land of Brazil), written by Pero de Magalhães Gadavo in 1576:Some Indian women who also determine among themselves to be castes, who know no man of any quality, nor will they consent to it even if they kill them for it. They leave all the exercise of women and imitate men and follow their trades as if they were not females. They bring their hair cut in the same way as the males and go to war with their bows and arrows, and to hunting, always persevering in the company of men, and each has a wife who serves her, with whom she says she is married, and so they communicate and talk as husband and wife.16 (de Gandavo 2008, pp. 136–137)

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