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

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Women Who Are living Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives within the social family members of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central The usa. Women and men from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial family members 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 ladies’s local practices of magic, curing, and religion found out opportunities for ladies’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 crucial public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power within the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in day by day life.

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