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The Women Who Threw Corn
Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Verlag:
Cambridge Academic Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: E6RL3Y6
EAN: 9781009550529
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Zustellung: Di, 29.09.2026
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Beschreibung
This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women - the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye; the Canarian daughter of a Count who ate peyote and mixed her bath water into a man's mustard supply; the wife of a Spanish conquistador who let her hair loose and chanted to a Mesoamerican god while sweeping at midnight; the wealthy Basque woman with a tattoo of a red devil; and many others - routinely adapted Native ritual into hybrid magic and cosmology. Through a radical rethinking of colonial knowledge, Martin Austin Nesvig uncovers a world previously left in the shadows of historical writing, revealing a fascinating and vibrant multi-ethnic community of witches, midwives, and healers.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Nesvig Martin Austin
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)