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 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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