The Women Who Threw Corn
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-55052-9 (ISBN)
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.
Martin Austin Nesvig is Professor of History at the University of Miami, and a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of five books including Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico (2009) and Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain (2018).
Introduction; Part I. Witches and Their Enemies in the Early Modern World: 1. Demonological and anti-sorcery theories in Spain; 2. Mesoamerican magic-medicine; 3. Inquisitions, sorcery investigations, and the law in Mexico, 1521–1571; Part II. Magic in the 1520s and 1530s: 4. Nahua women teach Iberian women how to cast spells; 5. A multi-ethnic world of magic; 6. African witches in Mexico City; 7. Bad girls club: Moriscas, North Africans, and Canarians in Mexico; Part III. The Cultural Hybrid Healer-Witch: 8. The evil eye and a mysterious tattoo; 9. Healing and magic in Oaxaca and Michoacán, 1561–1562; 10. Mulatas incorporate Peyote and Patle; 11. Catalina de Peraza, Canarian bad girl personified; Afterword; Select bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.07.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-55052-7 / 1009550527 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-55052-9 / 9781009550529 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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