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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 562–564.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Kenneth Mills Hechicería, brujería, e Inquisición en el Nuevo Reino de Granada: un duelo de imaginarios . By Gómez Diana Luz Ceballos . Medellín : Editorial Universidad Nacional , 1994 . Illustrations. Table. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. 249 pp. Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 549–587.
Published: 01 August 2002
... of attention to the story. Eduardo Varela Zequiera, the story’s reporter who would eventually build a career based on his reporting on issues of race, publicly surmised, along with his reporting of the facts, that the child had been a victim of brujería . At the same time, El Gabriel’s increasingly alarmed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (3): 586–588.
Published: 01 August 2003
... revolutionary,” Afro-Cuban religions as more or less direct transplants of African religions, and the persecution of brujería as wholly animated by socioeconomic concerns. But rather than replace those narratives with new ones that perpetuate the same basic categories of analysis, he instead produces close...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 173–175.
Published: 01 February 2022
... dissemination of notions of brujería , or witchcraft, in both Cuba and Brazil. Letters and correspondence also play a key role in understanding the importance of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, which served as a kind of training ground and patronage center for young anthropologists. The campus...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 429–433.
Published: 01 August 2002
... research, she take up the question of brujería and the secret Afro-Cuban associations or ñáñigos in newly independent Cuba at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is a story that shows how inclusionist tendencies that hoped to make Afro-Cubans part of the new nation coexisted with racial theories...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (2): 183–212.
Published: 01 May 2024
... prayers, potions, and ritual cures to help attract a desirable marital match, tame an abusive husband, distract a possessive partner, or stimulate a lover's generosity. 4 Social histories of American Inquisition trials against witchcraft ( brujería ) show that people suspected of sorcery ( sortilegio...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 595–621.
Published: 01 November 2020
... pueblo sea “reputada como mestiza”. . . Se pueden identificar dos elementos a los que acuden los defensores de los caciques para argumentar la supuesta desigualdad: que la abuela del pretendiente Villao haya sido acusada de brujería y de tener pacto con el diablo –la causa más importante para los...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (1): 83–116.
Published: 01 February 1998
... are devotees of witchcraft ( brujería ), contaminating black Cubans in an atavistic leap backwards in time. They practice the superstitious “Vodu” cult which is full of black magic . . . and [are] led by a priest known as “papa Bocú.” 39 Even leftist observers employed racial stereotypes about Haitian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 377–404.
Published: 01 August 1995
... parroquia de Moca, 1787-1836,” Ibid., 2:2 (1975), 1-47, esp. 28. 59 Teodoro Vidal, Tradiciones en la brujería puertorriqueña (San Juan: Ediciones Alba, 1989). 127. 60 Peiro, Deontología médica, 294-304. 61 These were the officially sanctioned offerings to the priest for rites...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 597–629.
Published: 01 August 1999
... peoples in their efforts to assert dominance. In her paper, “Unstable Bodies: Gender, Ethnicity, and Shape-Shifting Brujería in Late-Seventeenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala,” Martha Few (University of Miami) used Inquisition records to demonstrate that female “witches” used their own bodies as ritual...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 425–461.
Published: 01 August 1999
... decisiones jurídicas y políticas que se tomaban en el lebo debían ser respetadas, y en esto se detecta la existencia de lo que podríamos llamar un código social sobre lo que se consideraba actividad criminal. 7 Los conflictos en materia de brujería, robo y adulterio eran discutidos a nivel de los lebo...
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