HIST 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hypocorism, Premarital Sex, Two-Spirit
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-(shakespeare, the tempest (prospero, caliban)); settlement of (a. ) Native americans: colonists saw them as savages needing conversion; Hist-347: lecture 8: early american sex: cultural encounters. Virginia/chesapeake bay from 1607, new england from 1620. shocked by nudity and sexual practices like premarital sex, polygamy, childhood sex- play; and by the berdache. All europeans, agreed that these people and their sexual practices were savages, they needed to be captured for crhsit. They were a category of women, who dressed and lived as women. They did womens work and they mighy marry other men. They were two spirited, they posed both maleness and femaleness. To europeans this made no-sense, this was the worst type of sin. The european took it on themselves to change these practices. European male, one problem; some of them selves might find the physical and cultural traits of the idnegious and africans alluring. Racial pollution, savages could be improve my interaction with white people.
