Sunday, January 11, 2004

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

158. Colonial Identities, Contested Boundaries: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Politics of Identification in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala
Omni Shoreham, Council Room

Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History

Chair: Kris Lane, College of William and Mary
Papers:

“A Monster of Nature”: Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a “Hermaphrodite” in Late Eighteenth-Century Guatemala
Martha Few, University of Miami

From Shibboleths to Practices: Inquisitorial Readings of Native Identity in New Spain
David Tavarez, Bard College

Performing the Inquisitor: Imposture and Identity Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Javier Villa-Flores, University of Illinois at Chicago


Comment: Kevin Terraciano, University of California at Los Angeles