âSpeaking with the Fireâ: The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemalaâ159

Martha Few

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âSpeaking with the Fireâ: The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemalaâ159

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004386464_010

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Abstract

Indigenous midwives and female healers who treated infants and children in late-sixteenth-century Guatemala were medico-religious specialists who mediated the natural and supernatural realms to treat child illness. Their socially critical roles are examined through the lens of an Inquisition investigation in the tributary Maya town of Samayaq in colonial Central America into indigenous and mixed race womenâs use of divination as a strategy to treat child illness, and in particular mollera caÃda, or fallen fontanel.

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Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World

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