Queer Natives in Latin America

Chapter 1. Taking a closer look at "Queer Natives".- Chapter 2. Mesoamerica.- Chapter 3. The Andes.- Chapter 4. The Amazon.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: What does it mean to be native and queer in Latin America today?.

Fabiano de Souza Gontijo is anthropologist, professor at the Graduate Program in Anthropology, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil, and researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in Brazil. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, and develops research about sexual diversity, gender, nationalism and power. Barbara M. Arisi is an anthropologist, journalist and associate professor at the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil, where she was the Dean of the Latin American Institute of Arts, Culture and History. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, with a PhD internship at the University of Oxford, UK, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She works with the Matis indigenous people from the Vale do Javari, Amazon, has written about indigenous cosmologies, sexualities economy and their demands in environmental arenas, and is one of the authors of Gay Indians in Brazil: Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities (Springer, 2017).