America, América: Of "Sodomites" and Occidentalism

America's first cartographic appearance, Martin Waldseemüller (1507)


América: Allegories of the "Feminine"




























Andean Hauntings: Tawantinsuyu and Fearful Symmetry




























"Ipa" or "Orua," refers to "third-gendered" transmitters of cultural knowledge.

"Tinkuy is essentially the joining together of complementary opposites through a process of ritual mediation; similarly, yanantin is an expression of dualistic symmetry" (Horswell 17; see also 137 ss.)

"Amautas," or knowledge keepers, become displaced by the new "chaupis" (they occupy an in between position). The new chaupis are the missionary scribes who "translate" one culture to another and in the process speak for the Other.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa's Dogs