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Gay Indians in Brazil - Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Gay Indians in Brazil - Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book unveils an ignored aspect of the Brazilian history: how
the colonization of the country shaped the sexuality of its
indigenous population. Based on textual research, the authors show
how the government and religious institutions gradually imposed the
family model considered as "normal" to Brazilian indigenous gays
through forced labor, punishment, marriages with non-indigenous and
other methods. However, such disciplinary practices didn't prevent
the resistance of the natives whose sexuality operates out of the
hegemonic model, and the book also analyzes the impact of these
forms of dissent on the development of indigenous movements,
interethnic relations and indigenous policies in Brazil. Building
upon Post-Colonial and Queer theories, the authors present a
historical overview of the ideas and practices employed by the
religious and governmental authorities to repress homosexuality
among indigenous peoples since the beginning of the colonization
process, on the 16th century. They also show how this process of
colonization of indigenous sexualities goes beyond the formal
colonization period, which ended with the Brazilian Independence in
1822, and is part of a wider process of compulsory
heterosexualization and heteronormativity of native peoples, based
on scientific, theological, social and cultural assumptions that
inspired religious, civilizing, academic and political practices
throughout Brazilian history.
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