Ontogénesis y filogénesis del travestismo inuit: Del feto, el chamán y la figura intersticial del tercer sexo en la sociedad inuit

Translated title of the contribution: Ontogenesis and phylogenesis of inuit cross-dressing: Of fetus, shaman and the interstitial figure of the third sex in the inuit society

Leslie Nicholls, Alejandro Bilbao

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Abstract

Saladin d’Anglure on his text From fœtus to shaman: the construction of an Inuit ‘third sex’, explores the Inuit concept of a third sex as a concept that comes to stress the limits of the Western gender binary categories; that scheme that divides and opposes the feminine to the masculine. This category of a third sex is sustained through various paradigms and social practices among the Inuits, precisely designed to name the third sex and thereby to give it a place and cultural acceptance. Thus, the existence of a tertiary paradigm glimpsed in Inuit society, regarding the gender binary known in the West, allows us to rethink the cultural definitions of transgender, transvestism and shamanism. This approach expresses an ontogenetic model (concerning the conditions of existence and development of the singular individual) and a phylogenetic model (since it makes reference, from a cultural perspective, to the forms of social transmission between different generations), particular from the Inuit perspective, that places this Inuit third sex in a singular temporal-spatial context, posing it as an insterstitial figure between man and woman, between the feminine and the masculine.

Translated title of the contributionOntogenesis and phylogenesis of inuit cross-dressing: Of fetus, shaman and the interstitial figure of the third sex in the inuit society
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)265-282
Number of pages18
JournalAndamios
Volume16
Issue number39
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

  • Gender
  • Inuit
  • Cross-dressing
  • Transgender
  • Shamanism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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