Remedios for Relationships: Social Precarity and Amatory Therapeutics in the Early Circum-Caribbean.

This study argues that practices sometimes referred to as "love magic" operated instead as relational therapeutics in colonial Latin America. Focusing on women's roles in Spanish Caribbean port cities from the late sixteenth through the early eighteenth century, I analyze a range of relationship rem...

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Published in:Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 183 - 213
Main Author: Block, Kristen
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press May2024
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