By Martha Few
Girls Who reside Evil Lives files the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya girls sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives within the social relatives of strength in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial principal the US. women and men from all sectors of society consulted them to interfere in sexual and familial family members and disputes among acquaintances and rival store vendors; to counter abusive colonial officers, employers, or husbands; and in situations of inexplicable illness.Applying ancient, anthropological, and gender experiences research, Martha Few argues that women's neighborhood practices of magic, curing, and faith printed possibilities for women's cultural authority and tool in colonial Guatemala. Few attracts on archival learn carried out in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new mild on women's serious public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections among the capital urban and the geographical region, and the gender dynamics of energy within the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in way of life.
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