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Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala

ISBN: 9780292725430 ;ISBN: 0292725434 ;EISBN: 0292798725 ;EISBN: 9780292798724 ;DOI: 10.7560/725430 ;OCLC: 929158630

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  • Title:
    Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala
  • Author: Few, Martha
  • Subjects: 17th century ; 18th century ; Colonial history ; Evil ; Gender ; Guatemala ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; Mexico ; Politics ; Power ; Religion ; Social conditions ; Women
  • Description: Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial officials, employers, or husbands; and in cases of inexplicable illness. Applying historical, anthropological, and gender studies analysis, Martha Few argues that women’s local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for women’s cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on women’s critical public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power in the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in daily life.
  • Publisher: Austin: University of Texas Press
  • Creation Date: 2002
  • Format: 202
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780292725430
    ISBN: 0292725434
    EISBN: 0292798725
    EISBN: 9780292798724
    DOI: 10.7560/725430
    OCLC: 929158630
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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