{"product_id":"the-women-who-threw-corn-witchcraft-and-inquisition-in-sixteenth-century-mexico-9781009550529","title":"The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNesvig, Martin Austin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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).","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52038825574674,"sku":"9781009550529","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_317df87a-45de-42c9-a617-61d8c0aac55c.jpg?v=1771335033","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-women-who-threw-corn-witchcraft-and-inquisition-in-sixteenth-century-mexico-9781009550529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}