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    1. B. L. Voss, “Sexuality Studies in Archaeology,” Annual Review of Anthropology 37 (2008): 317–336. See also this volume’s chapter 1.
    2. E.g., A. Praetzellis, “Queer Theory,” in Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2015), chap. 7.
    3. J. McLaughlin, M. E. Casey, and D. Richardson, “Introduction: At the Intersections of Feminist and Queer Debates,” in Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory, ed. D. Richardson, J. McLaughlin, and M. E. Casey (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 1–18.
    4. A. C. Roosevelt, “Gender in Human Evolution: Sociobiology Revisited and Revised,” in In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches, ed. S. M. Nelson and M. Rosen-Ayalon (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002), 355–376.
    5. T. A. Dowson, “Why Queer Archaeology? An Introduction,” in Queer Archaeologies,” World Archaeology 32, no. 2 (2000): 161–165; S. Terendy and N. Lyons, eds., Que(e)rying Archaeology: Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Chacmool Conference (Calgary, AB: Archaeological Association, University of Calgary, 2009).
    6. E.g., C. F. Klein, “None of the Above: Gender Ambiguity in Nahua Ideology,” in Gender in Pre-Hispanic America, ed. C. F. Klein and J. Quilter (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001), 183–253; I. Silverblatt, “Andean Women in the Inca Empire,” Feminist Studies 4, no. 3 (1978): 37–61; I. Silverblatt, Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987); I. Silverblatt, “Lessons of Gender and Ethnohistory in Mesoamerica,” Ethnohistory 42, no. 4 (1995): 639–650.
    7. T. D. Bulger and R. A. Joyce, “Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities,” in A Companion to Gender Prehistory, ed. D. Bolger (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2013), 68–85.
    8. For universals, see e.g., P. L. Geller, “Identity and Difference: Complicating Gender in Archaeology,” Annual Review of Anthropology 38 (2009): 65; and for categorization, see C. Blackmore, “How to Queer the Past Without Sex: Queer Theory, Feminisms and the Archaeology of Identity,” Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 7, no. 12 (2011): 79.
    9. B. L. Voss, “Looking for Gender, Finding Sexuality: A Queer Politic of Archaeology, Fifteen Years Later,” in Terendy and Lyons, Que(e)rying Archaeology, 34.
    10. E.g., A. Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
    11. Fausto-Sterling, 7.
    12. P. L. Geller, “Skeletal Analysis and Theoretical Complications,” World Archaeology 37 (2005): 598.
    13. R. Storey, “Health and Lifestyle (before and after Death) among the Copán Elite,” in Copán: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom, ed. E. W. Andrews and W. L. Fash (Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 2005), 315–344.
    14. E. M. Perry and J. M. Potter, “Materiality and Social Change in the Practice of Feminist Anthropology,” in Feminist Anthropology: Past Present and Future, ed. P. L. Geller and M. K. Stockett (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 118.
    15. L. Ghisleni, A. M. Jordan, and E. Fioccoprile, “Introduction to ‘Binary Binds’: Deconstructing Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Archaeological Practice,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 23, no. 3 (2016): 779.
    16. Ghisleni, Jordan, and Fioccoprile, 771.
    17. L. Meskell and R. W. Preucel, “Identities,” in A Companion to Social Archaeology, ed. L. Meskell and R. W. Preucel (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), 122.
    18. T. W. Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990).
    19. R. A. Nye, “Sexuality,” in A Companion to Gender History, ed. T. A. Meade and M. E. Wiesner (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), 16.
    20. R. Gilchrist, “Experiencing Gender: Identity, Sexuality and the Body,” Gender and Archaeology: Contesting the Past (London: Routledge, 1999), 55.
    21. J. Money and A. A. Ehrhardt, Man and Woman, Boy and Girl: Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972). See also A. Oakley, Sex, Gender, and Society (San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row, 1972); and R. J. Stoller, Sex and Gender: On the Development of Masculinity and Femininity (New York: Science House, 1968).
    22. J. Butler, Gender Trouble (New York: Routledge, 1990); J. Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (New York: Routledge, 1993).
    23. Laqueur, Making Sex.
    24. Butler, Gender Trouble, 10.
    25. J. Sofaer, The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 97. Butler’s followers include I. Fuglestvedt, “Declaration on Behalf of an Archaeology of Sexe,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 21, no. 1 (2014): 52; R. Schmidt, “The Contribution of Gender to Personal Identity in the Southern Scandinavian Mesolithic,” in The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification, ed. E. Casella and C. Fowler (New York: Springer, 2004), 79–108; and T. Ardren, “Studies of Gender in the Prehispanic Americas,” Journal of Archaeological Research 16 (2008): 1.
    26. Fuglestvedt, “Declaration on Behalf of an Archaeology of Sexe,” 58.
    27. G. G. McCafferty and S. D. McCafferty, “The Metamorphosis of Xochiquetzal,” in Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology, ed. T. L. Sweely (New York: Routledge, 1999), 117.
    28. L. H. Wren, K. Spencer, and T. Nygard, “To Face or to Flee from the Foe: Women in Warfare at Chichen Itza,” in Landscapes of the Itza: Archaeology and Art History at Chichen Itza and Neighboring Sites, ed. L. H. Wren, C. Kristan-Graham, T. Nygard, and K. Spencer (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018), 260–261.
    29. K. Reese-Taylor, P. Mathews, J. Guernsey, and M. Fritzler, “Warrior Queens among the Ancient Maya,” in Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America, ed. H. Orr and R. Koontz (Los Angeles, CA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2009), 39–72.
    30. J. Nordbladh and T. Yates, “This Perfect Body, This Virgin Text,” in Archaeology after Structuralism: Post-structuralism and the Practice of Archaeology, ed. I. Bapty and T. Yates (New York: Routledge, 1990), 222–239.
    31. For an overview, see E. M. Brumfiel, “The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica: Moving beyond Gender Complementarity,” in A Companion to Gender Prehistory, ed. D. Bolger (Malden, MA: John Wiley, 2013), 574–575.
    32. M. G. Looper, “Women-Men (and Men-Women): Classic Maya Rulers and the Third Gender,” in Ancient Maya Women, ed. T. Ardren (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2001), 171–202; B. J. A. Follensbee, “Unsexed Images, Gender-Neutral Costume, and Gender-Ambiguous Costume in Formative Period Gulf Coast Cultures,” in Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America, ed. H. S. Orr and M. G. Looper (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014), 226.
    33. Follensbee, “Unsexed Images,” 217.
    34. J. P. Blomster, “The Naked and the Ornamental: Embodiment and Fluid Identities in Early Formative Oaxaca,” in Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America, ed. H. S. Orr and M. G. Looper (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014), 107.
    35. E. Hunt, The Transformation of the Hummingbird (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977), 95–109; for an expansion of this research, see K. Bassie-Sweet, “Corn Deities and the Male/Female Principle,” in Ancient Maya Gender Identity and Relations, ed. L. S. Gustafson and A. M. Trevelyan (Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2002), 169–190; and S. Milbrath, “Gender and the Roles of Lunar Deities in Postclassic Central Mexico and Their Correlations with the Maya Area,” Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 39 (1995): 45–93.
    36. Klein, “None of the Above,” 219–221.
    37. Milbrath, “Gender and the Roles of Lunar Deities in Postclassic Central Mexico and Their Correlations with the Maya Area”; E. C. Mandell, “A New Analysis of the Gender Attribution of the ‘Great Goddess’ of Teotihuacan,” Ancient Mesoamerica 26, no. 1 (2015): 43.
    38. F. K. Reilly, “Female and Male: The Ideology of Balance and Renewal in Elite Costuming among the Ancient Maya,” in Gustafson and Trevelyan, Ancient Maya Gender Identity and Relations, 319–328; Looper, “Women-Men (and Men-Women).”
    39. A. J. Stone, “Sacrifice and Sexuality: Some Structural Relationships in Classic Maya Art,” in The Role of Gender in Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture, ed. V. E. Miller (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988), 75–76.
    40. R. A. Joyce, “Dimensiones Simbolicas del Traje en Monumentos Clasicos Mayas: La Construccion del Genero a Traves del Vestido,” in La Indumentaria y El Tejido Mayas a Traves del Tiempo, Monograph 8, ed. L. Asturias and D. Fernandez (Guatemala City, Guatemala: Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena, 1992). Rosemary A. Joyce, “The Construction of Gender in Classic Maya Monuments,” in Gender and Archaeology, ed. R. P. Wright (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 166–195.
    41. P. U. Bonomi, The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 15.
    42. P. Sigal, “Gendered Power, the Hybrid Self, and Homosexual Desire in Late Colonial Yucatan,” in Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, ed. P. Sigal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 115.
    43. M. Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, An Introduction (London: Allen Lane, 1978).
    44. D. M. Halperin, How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
    45. See B. L. Voss, “Feminisms, Queer Theories, and the Archaeological Study of Past Sexualities,” World Archaeology 32, no. 2 (2000): 184.
    46. E. M. Perry and R. A. Joyce, “Interdisciplinary Applications: Providing a Past for ‘Bodies That Matter’: Judith Butler’s Impact on the Archaeology of Gender,” International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies 6, nos. 1–2 (2001): 74.
    47. R. A. Joyce, “Performance and Inscription: Human Nature in Prehispanic Mesoamerica,” in Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica, ed. R. Joyce (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000), 191.
    48. P. Sigal, From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000), 224.
    49. R. A. Joyce, “Gender and Mesoamerican Archaeology,” in Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, ed. S. M. Nelson (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006), 800.
    50. J. J. Aimers, “The Sexual Colonization of the Ancient Maya,” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 11 (2014): 157.
    51. S. D. Houston and T. Inomata, The Classic Maya (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 55.
    52. Fuglestvedt, “Declaration on Behalf of an Archaeology of Sexe,” 69.
    53. S. D. McCafferty, and G. G. McCafferty, “Powerful Women and the Myth of Male Dominance in Aztec Society,” Archaeological Review from Cambridge 7 (1988): 45–59. For gender parallelism, see Rosemary A. Joyce, “Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerican Societies,” in The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, ed. D. L. Nichols and C. A. Pool (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 663–672.
    54. M. K. Stockett, “On the Importance of Difference: Re-envisioning Sex and Gender in Ancient Mesoamerica,” World Archaeology 37, no. 4 (2005): 568.
    55. Blackmore, “How to Queer the Past Without Sex,” 77; Voss, “Looking for Gender, Finding Sexuality.”
    56. Blackmore, “How to Queer the Past Without Sex,” 77.
    57. R. Gilchrist, “Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender,” in A Companion to Social Archaeology, ed. L. Meskell and R. W. Preucel (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), 142–160.
    58. Fuglestvedt, “Declaration on Behalf of an Archaeology of Sexe,” 66; Fuglestvedt drew on Schmidt, “The Contribution of Gender to Personal Identity.”
    59. Stockett, “On the Importance of Difference,” 571–572.
    60. Pulque is a lightly fermented beverage made from the agave plant. It was a common pre-Columbian beverage that also had ritual importance.
    61. Milbrath, “Gender and the Roles of Lunar Deities,” 46.
    62. Klein, “None of the Above,” 195.
    63. Ghisleni, Jordan, and Fioccoprile, “Introduction to ‘Binary Binds,’” 770.
    64. Alberti, “Queer Prehistory,” 95. See also Joyce, “Performance and Inscription.”
    65. Gilchrist, “Experiencing Gender,” 73. See also L. Meskell, “Re-Em(bed)ding Sex: Domesticity, Sexuality, and Ritual in New Kingdom Egypt,” in Archaeologies of Sexuality (New York: Routledge, 2000), 253–262; and Meskell and Preucel, “Identities.”
    66. Alberti, “Queer Prehistory,” 94.
    67. Ghisleni, Jordan, and Fioccoprile, “Introduction to ‘Binary Binds,’” 777.
    68. S. E. Hollimon, “The Third Gender in Native California: Two-Spirit Undertakers among the Chumash and Their Neighbors,” in Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, ed. C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), 183.
    69. C. A. Vance, ed., Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Boston, MA: Routledge, 1984), 17.
    70. For the study of Spanish colonialism, see B. L. Voss, “Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire,” American Anthropologist 110, no. 2 (2008): 196; and for ethnosexual conflict, see J. Nagel, Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
    71. Sigal, “Gendered Power,” 104, 108.
    72. Sigal, 109.
    73. For sexual imagery linked to politics and power, see M. Weismantel, “Moche Sex Pots: Reproduction and Temporality in Ancient South America,” American Anthropologist 106, no. 3 (2004): 495–505; J. M. Gero, “Sex Pots of Ancient Peru: Post-gender Reflections,” in Combining the Past and the Present: Archaeological Perspectives on Society, ed. R. Haaland, T. Oestigaard, N. Anfinset, and T. Saetersdal (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004), 3–22; and S. Bourget, Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006). See also Voss, “Sexuality Studies in Archaeology,” 322.
    74. M. J. Horswell, “Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender Subjectivity,” in Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, ed. P. Sigal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 43. ↵

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