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Women Who Live Evil Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Women Who Live Evil Lives

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 consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial officials, employers, or husbands; and in cases of inexplicable illness. Applying historical, anthropological, and gender studies analysis, Martha Few argues that women's local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for women's cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on women's critical public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power in the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in daily life.

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not in the archives, but in the methods we have constructed for locating and examining those archives. The essays that make up this volume offer new critical approaches to black African agency and the conceptualization of blackness in early modern literary works, historical documents, material and visual cultures, and performance culture. Ultimately, this critical anthology revises current understandings about racial discourse and the cultural contributions of black Africans in early modernity and in the present across the globe.

Weekly World News
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44

Weekly World News

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1988-04-19
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.

Unscripted America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Unscripted America

Unscripted America reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture.

Keywords for Health Humanities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Keywords for Health Humanities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-08-29
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"Leading scholars introduce key terms, concepts, and debates about the meanings of health and illness in relation to equity and disparity, race, gender, sexuality, and disability, infection and contagion, democracy and repression, and other urgent topics at the core of our pandemic-era world"--

The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States

Chapter 15. The "Alpha and Omega" of Haitian Literature: Baron de Vastey and the U.S. Audience of Haitian Political Writing, 1807-1825 -- Epilogue. Two Archives and the Idea of Haiti

Counting Bodies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Counting Bodies

Looking to work by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Ligon, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, Counting Bodies explores the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies.

Crip Authorship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Crip Authorship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-08
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"Crip Authorship: Disability as Method convenes leading scholars, activists, and artists to explore the shaping of cultural production, aesthetics, and media by disability across 35 short chapters"--

The Medical Imagination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

The Medical Imagination

The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.