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

by Martha Few

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292725493

ISBN13:9780292725492

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:202 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

17th Century Americas Antigua Caribbean & West Indies Central America Feminist Theory Gender Studies Guatemala History Latin America Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Women in History Women's Studies

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