Martha Few: 2 books
Women Who Live Evil Lives
Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
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...
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic,...