The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture

Index

INDEX Abstinence, 88, 169, 213, 216 Adultery: Catholic discourse and, 99, 101; Nahua condemnation of, 29, 71–73, 209–16, 277 n. 35, 290 n. 72; Tlazolteotl and, 51 Aesthetics: gender and, 113, 129, 136; the gods and, 113, 126, 136; human bodies and, 115–20, 148, 158, 198–202; human sacrifice and, 155–65; identity and, 28, 198–202; Nahua writing and, 42; ritual and, 136, 139–43, 155–65; warfare and, 148 Agency, 56–57, 63, 283 n. 7 Agriculture, 9, 21–23, 30, 44–49, 56–57, 140–41, 155–65, 168 Alfonso X, King, 242 Alhuiani, 84, 87, 155–56, 158–59, 217, 224–27, 229–31, 238–39, 249 Altepetl, 4, 6, 12, 17, 27, 38, 41, 47, 55, 120, 139–41, 210, 213, 219, 222, 302 n. 49 Alva, Bartolomé de, 94–102, 177, 179 Amecameca, 217–19, 238, 249 Anal intercourse, 12; ‘‘active’’ role in, 82, 193, 209, 216, 294 n. 44; ‘‘passive’’ role in, 28, 82, 111, 177–78, 181, 191–97, 202–5, 216, 280 n. 80, 294 n. 44; penalties for, 178, 202. See also Chimouhqui; Cuiloni; Sodomy; Tecuilonti Anderson, Arthur, 191–92, 194 Androgyny, 113–14 Anguish, 110 Animals, 3–4, 8, 12, 22–24, 35, 104, 108– 9, 126, 140–41, 147, 166, 214, 302 n. 50; animal skin and, 38–39, 43, 50, 121, 148, 151–55, 226, 248. See also individual animals Anthropology, 141, 185, 282 n. 2, 299 n. 10 Archives, 9, 11, 26, 31–33, 237 Arondekar, Anjali, 11 Atenango, 168 Auilnemiliztli, 83–84, 225–27, 231, 238– 39, 289 n. 155 Authenticity of indigenous voice, 25, 31– 33, 250, 274 n. 101 Axayacatl, 5–6, 207, 217–29, 231, 233, 237–39, 249, 255–62 Azcapotzalco, 166 Aztec Empire, 121, 138 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 44 Baptism, 20, 64, 70–71 354 ≤ INDEX Bath. See Temazcal Bautista, Juan, 99 Bees, 127 Benandanti, 244 Benavente, Toribio de. See Motolinia Berdache, 182–85, 196 Bigamy, 73 Bisexuality, 22, 103–7, 292 n. 22 Black Mirror/Espejo Negro exhibit, 241–53 Blackness: development of a racial category and, 203, 235–36; as negative in Christian thought, 94–95, 101–2; as part of the tlazolli complex, 172 Bloodletting, 12, 34, 55–56, 75, 89, 143, 167–68, 175, 210 Bodies: curing rites and, 8–9, 166–75; of the gods, 107–11, 122–23, 128, 133–38; liminality and, 27, 148, 151–53, 157– 58, 166–69, 174; as manipulated in Nahua ritual, 3–4, 8–9, 27, 44–48, 55, 87–90, 111–20, 139–40, 148–51, 155– 65; in pictographic writing, 33–34; tlazolli and, 19–26 Bones, 123, 133 Boone, Elizabeth Hill, 108–9 Brading, David, 70 Bravery, 77, 110, 183, 293 n. 37 Breast milk, 223 Breasts of women, 5, 123, 133, 200–201, 223, 257, 262 Brooms, 24, 35, 45–48, 50–51, 155–65, 186, 249 Burkhart, Louise, 13, 18–21, 23–24, 58, 96, 101, 231, 271 n. 70 Butler, Judith, 48–49 Buttocks, 163, 209, 225 Cannibalism, 68, 71, 85, 89, 145–47, 175, 182, 188–90, 204, 214 Cantares Mexicanos, 4–6, 152–55, 159, 217–29, 233, 242, 255–62 Capes, 46, 200, 223 Captives, 12, 41, 53, 72, 139, 142–43, 146, 151, 156, 189–90, 210, 223 Carnality, 61, 83 Carnivalesque performance, 120 Castration, 46–49,160–65,170–74, 222, 249 Catholic priests, 29–33, 57–58, 61–102, 229–37 Centipedes, 24, 43, 121, 123, 126 Chalca Woman’s Song, 5–6, 207, 217– 29, 231, 233, 237–39, 249, 255–62 Chalchiuhnenetzin, 223 Chalchiuhtlicue, 3, 87, 91, 129–34, 137 Chalco, 5–6, 17, 207, 217–20, 222, 224, 227, 229, 231, 233, 238, 242, 249. See also Chalca Woman’s Song Chastity, 7, 71–72, 75–77, 169–70, 213, 238 Chauncey, George, 180–81 Chicle, 197 Chicomecoatl, 3, 7, 45, 87, 90, 156–59, 247, 291 n. 7 Childbirth, 7, 24–25, 27, 34–39, 43, 56, 104, 108–9, 114, 116, 121–24, 128–29, 131, 134, 136–37, 145, 147, 153, 156, 164, 209 Children, 7–8, 24, 70, 72, 98, 121, 142– 45, 203, 209, 223, 233. See also Childbirth Chimalpahin, Don Domingo de Sán Antón Muñón, 6, 17, 217–19, 223, 228, 238, 249 Chimouhqui, 192, 194–97, 204. See also Anal intercourse; Cuiloni; Sodomy Churches, Catholic, 8, 57, 203, 282 n. 109 Cihuacoatl, 104, 125, 128, 167, 175 Cihuateteo, 4, 24...