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For All of Humanity

Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

The University of Arizona Press

For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease.

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Women Who Live Evil Lives

Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala

University of Texas Press

The lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the capital of colonial Central America.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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