Gay Indians in Brazil: Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities

Abstract

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Why It's Important to Look at Gay Natives' History -- References -- Chapter 2: "Between the Cross and the Crown": Missionaries and Indigenous Sexuality -- 2.1 Colonization and Missionary Vision: Historical Background -- 2.2 Sodomy in Colonial Brazil: Vice vs. Nature -- 2.3 Sexuality and Savagery: Cannibalism and Lust as Seen by Chroniclers -- 2.4 We Show Them the Disciplines that Tamed the Flesh -- 2.5 Concluding Considerations -- References -- Chapter 3: Becoming "Useful Citizens:" The Control Over Natives and Their Sexualities -- 3.1 "Ceasing to Be Ignorant May Be Useful to Themselves, the Dwellers and the State" -- 3.2 While His Majesty Does Not Order the Opposite (1757) -- 3.3 Regulations on the Missions of Evangelization and Civilization of the Indians (1845) -- 3.4 Making the Indian an Improved Indian -- References -- Chapter 4: Race, Sex, and Civilization: The Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities -- 4.1 Intersecting Parallels: Race, Sex, and Civilization -- 4.2 Points of Contact -- References -- Chapter 5: To Exist Is to Resist -- References -- Index