- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1 edition (31 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0292725493
- ISBN-13: 978-0292725492
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,530,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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
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'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' - NGrant 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 neighbours 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.
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