The discourses on homosexuality in Brazilian colonial period - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i2.19477

This article aims to draw an analysis, based on an archaeogenealogical perspective, of the male homosexuality in the Colonial Period of Brazil and the relations with the Metropolitan Christin moral code, according to the hypothesus of a hierarchy which is based on the separation between masculinity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Butturi Junior, Atílio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Repositorio:Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/19477
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/19477
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:court of the inquisition
sodomy
male homosexuality
sexual hierarchy
tribunal da inquisição
sodomia
homossexualidade masculina
hierarquia sexual
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Sumario:This article aims to draw an analysis, based on an archaeogenealogical perspective, of the male homosexuality in the Colonial Period of Brazil and the relations with the Metropolitan Christin moral code, according to the hypothesus of a hierarchy which is based on the separation between masculinity and feminization in trade and affective the so-called ‘sexual abominable sin’. Party, initially, the file greco-latin, questioning him in his manhood scanson between an activity and a negative passivity. Thereafter, analyzes the discourse on male homosexuality in Brazil, choosing a corpus of documents and discourses of the Visitations and processes of the Court of the Inquisition in Brazil, noting the stay in the same hierarchy activity and passivity, often with discourses economic, ethnic, cultural and age.