Martin Austin Nesvig: The Women Who Threw Corn, Gebunden
The Women Who Threw Corn
- Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Pr., 06/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009550529
- Item number:
- 12241754
- Volume:
- 308 Pages
- Weight:
- 590 g
- Format:
- 235 x 162 mm
- Thickness:
- 23 mm
- Release date:
- 26.6.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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.