berdache

Detail of a sketch “Dance to the Berdache” by George Catlin (1796-1872).

详细的素描画请见由乔治·卡特林(1796-1872)的艺术作品“面向童子的舞蹈”。

North American tribal customs feature “two-spirit” people who combined male and female attributes (anthropologists call these “berdache”, from a French word for catamite).

北美部落俗中将有男女特性的称为“灵魂”（类学家称之为“berdache”从法语借来的词，意指）。