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...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 183 - 213 |
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Duke University Press
May2024
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