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

by Martha Few

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725493
• ISBN13: 9780292725492
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"