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For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they neither fully abandoned these views nor completely adopted the formulation of sexuality prescribed by Spanish Catholicism. Instead, they evolved hybridized notions of sexual desire, represented in the figure of the Virgin Mary as a sexual goddess, whose
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- Author
- Batya Weinbaum
- Publisher
- Austin: University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292791268
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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