Power and Authority
Women used this to challenge gender, racial, and colonial hierarchies and intervene conflicts
What is religion?
Where female sorcerers, magical healers, and popular religious leaders based their authority and power from
What is the human body/natural world?
Who is Padre Quevedo
This group of people attempted to define and monitor social and cultural behavior of colonial people and outline normative gender roles for men and women
What is the Catholic Church?
This revealed opportunities for women's cultural authority and power in daily life
What are devotional acts/curing/magic?
The author's focus on the 17th and 18th century accounts of lives and practices in Santiago de Guatemala
Who are Female sorcerers/Magical Healers/Midwives/Clandestine Religious Leaders?
These people consulted women to intervene in a variety of daily life conflicts
What are Colonial Society Members?
Used these to legitimate authority and power in revolts, rebellions, and everyday social relations
What are religious symbols?
The author used the following for their analysis of colonial Latin America: colonialism as a contested process, Women and Men exercised authority and power in community social relations, and community formation.
What are the three main historical processes?