Description
Book SynopsisThe lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the capital of colonial Central America.
Trade Review"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 Few's overarching theoretical and conceptual framework. This is wonderful historical ethnographic material." Grant D. Jones, author of The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Contested Powers: Gender, Culture, and the Process of Colonial Rule
- Chapter 2. Society and Colonial Authority in Santiago de Guatemala
- Chapter 3. Magical Violence and the Body
- Chapter 4. Illness, Healing, and the Supernatural World
- Chapter 5. Female Sorcery, Material Life, and Urban Community Formation
- Chapter 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
