Mixing/Medicines: Healing Exchanges among Women in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650) (2021)
Part of a broader project that studies the exchange of medical knowledge across boundaries of language and ethnicity in the colony of New Spain, this article uses records from the Mexican tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition to examine women healers’ participation in the exchange of healing materials and treatments and women’s networks as loci of knowledge and healing exchanges. The article finds that women in early-colonial New Spain (1530–1650) participated in complex multi-ethnic and multi-class networks, sharing healing recipes and remedies, transmitting and hybridising medical traditions and medicines and helping forge a diverse healing culture.
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