The women who threw corn witchcraft and Inquisition in sixteenth-century Mexico Martin Austin Nesvig, University of Miami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nesvig, Martin Austin, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Mexico--History--16th century.

Witchcraft.

Inquisition--Mexico--History--16th century.

Inquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2025

Summary:

"This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of witchcraft in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. It will interest students and scholars of ethnohistory, Latin American studies, gender history, anthropology, and religious studies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Witches and their enemies in the early modern world

Demonological and anti-sorcery theories in Spain

Mesoamerican magic-medicine

Inquisitions, sorcery investigations, and the law in Mexico, 1521-1571

Magic in the 1520s and 1530s

Nahua women teach Iberian women how to cast spells

A multi-ethnic world of magic

African witches in Mexico City

Bad girls club : Moriscas, North Africans, and Canarians in Mexico

The cultural hybrid healer-witch

The evil eye and a mysterious tattoo

Healing and magic in Oaxaca and Michoacán, 1561-1562

Mulatas incorporate peyote and patle

Catalina de Peraza, Canarian bad girl personified

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Nesvig, Martin Austin, 1968- Women who threw corn

ISBN:

9781009550505

1009550500

9781009550536

1009550535

OCLC:

1482736429

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Restricted for use by site license