Title Women Who Live Evil Lives : Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750

Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (203 pages) Summary Annotation "This is a significant intellectual contribution that has the additional merit of being thoroughly readable and appealing to a broad [audience]. ... The case studies are riveting, detailed with intensely personal, often sexually and socially charged examples, and clearly integrated with FewÕs overarching theoretical and conceptual framework. This is wonderful historical ethnographic material." ÑGrant D. Jones, author of The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom 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 womenÕs local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for womenÕs cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on womenÕs 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 Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Guatemala -- Antigua -- Social conditions -- 17th century Women -- Guatemala -- Antigua -- Social conditions -- 18th century Women healers -- Guatemala -- Antigua -- History -- 17th century Women healers -- Guatemala -- Antigua -- History -- 18th century Wizards -- Guatemala -- Antigua -- History -- 17th century Wizards -- Guatemala -- Antigua -- History -- 18th century Inquisition -- Guatemala -- Antigua Inquisition Wizards Women healers Women -- Social conditions Guatemala -- Antigua Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780292798724 0292798725 9780292725430 0292725434

  Permalink