Martha Few is Professor of Latin American history and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University.

"This is a significant intellectual contribution that has the additional merit of being thoroughly readable and appealing to a broad [audience].... The case studies are riveting, detailed with intensely personal, often sexually and socially charged examples, and clearly integrated with Few's overarching theoretical and conceptual framework. This is wonderful historical ethnographic material." Grant D. Jones, author of The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom

• PrefaceChapter 1. Contested Powers: Gender, Culture, and the Process of Colonial RuleChapter 2. Society and Colonial Authority in Santiago de GuatemalaChapter 3. Magical Violence and the BodyChapter 4. Illness, Healing, and the Supernatural WorldChapter 5. Female Sorcery, Material Life, and Urban Community FormationChapter 6. ConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Martha Few is Professor of Latin American history and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University.

"This is a significant intellectual contribution that has the additional merit of being thoroughly readable and appealing to a broad [audience].... The case studies are riveting, detailed with intensely personal, often sexually and socially charged examples, and clearly integrated with Few's overarching theoretical and conceptual framework. This is wonderful historical ethnographic material." Grant D. Jones, author of The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom

• PrefaceChapter 1. Contested Powers: Gender, Culture, and the Process of Colonial RuleChapter 2. Society and Colonial Authority in Santiago de GuatemalaChapter 3. Magical Violence and the BodyChapter 4. Illness, Healing, and the Supernatural WorldChapter 5. Female Sorcery, Material Life, and Urban Community FormationChapter 6. ConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Martha Few is Professor of Latin American history and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University.

"This is a significant intellectual contribution that has the additional merit of being thoroughly readable and appealing to a broad [audience].... The case studies are riveting, detailed with intensely personal, often sexually and socially charged examples, and clearly integrated with Few's overarching theoretical and conceptual framework. This is wonderful historical ethnographic material." Grant D. Jones, author of The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom

• PrefaceChapter 1. Contested Powers: Gender, Culture, and the Process of Colonial RuleChapter 2. Society and Colonial Authority in Santiago de GuatemalaChapter 3. Magical Violence and the BodyChapter 4. Illness, Healing, and the Supernatural WorldChapter 5. Female Sorcery, Material Life, and Urban Community FormationChapter 6. ConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex