Analytical perspectives on indigenous homosexualities: Considerations from a comparative study

This research is about Native homosexual activism in a comparative perspective between Brazil and the United States. The idea is to work as starting points with the queer theory, the coloniality of gender and two-spirit critiques in order to understand homosexuality as a Native critique of colonial...

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Published inMundo Amazonico Vol. 7; no. 1-2; pp. 101 - 110
Main Author Fernandes, Estevao Rafael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Universidad Nacional de Colombia 01.01.2016
Subjects
colonialism
ethnology
native sexuality
queer theory
South American Indians
two-spirit
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Summary:This research is about Native homosexual activism in a comparative perspective between Brazil and the United States. The idea is to work as starting points with the queer theory, the coloniality of gender and two-spirit critiques in order to understand homosexuality as a Native critique of colonial apparatus (bureaucratic and missionary) normalizer, heterosexual, male, white and European. Several writings of two-spirit in the United States reflect a critique of queer studies in the sense that queer theorists share a Western, white and modern perspective. Thus, they could not fully understand the native sexualities as an attitude of opposition to the colonization process.
ISSN:2145-5074
2145-5082
DOI:10.15446/ma.v7.55102