Research: Books
Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren, Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation
in the Spanish Empire, in press and forthcoming in February 2020 from the "Latin American
Originals" Series at Penn State University Press.
Martha Few, For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015). Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2016 Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History.
Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici, eds., Centering Animals in Latin American History (Duke University Press, 2013).
Martha Few, Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (University of Texas Press, 2002).
Research: Selected Articles and Book Chapters
• "The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s," in press and forthcoming in Ethnohistory, vol 67, no 3 (August 2020).
• "Early Modern Insects and Indigenous Mesoamerica," Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies L:1, special issue 50th Anniversary Edition "Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies,” (Spring 2020), 156-162.
• “'Speaking with the Fire': The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemala," Early Science and Medicine, special issue "Medicine and the Inquisition, Twenty Years After: Novel Approaches and New Research," 23 (2018), 159-176.
• "Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala," in Few and Tortorici, eds., Centering Animals in Latin American History (Duke University Press, 2013), 62-92.
• (with Zeb Tortorici), "Introduction: Writing Animals into Latin American History," in Few and Tortorici, eds., Centering Animals in Latin American History (Duke University Press, 2013), 1-27.
• "Medical Humanitarianism and Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 37:3 (Summer 2012), 303-317.
• "Circulating Smallpox Knowledges: Guatemalan Doctors, Maya Indians, and Designing Spain's Royal Vaccination Expedition, 1780-1806," British Journal for the History of Science 43:4 (December 2010), 519-537.
• "Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala," in Vollendorf and Kostrun, eds., Gender and Religion in the Atlantic World (University of Toronto Press, 2009), 205-222.
• "'That Monster of Nature': Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a 'Hermaphrodite' in Late Colonial Guatemala," special issue "Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica," Ethnohistory 54:1 (Winter 2007), 159-176.
• "'Our Lord Entered His Body': Miraculous Healing and Children's Bodies in Colonial New Spain," in Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds. Religion in New Spain (University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 114-124.
• "Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Ethnohistory 52:4 (fall 2005), 673-687.
• "Early Modern Insects and Indigenous Mesoamerica," Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies L:1, special issue 50th Anniversary Edition "Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies,” (Spring 2020), 156-162.
• “'Speaking with the Fire': The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemala," Early Science and Medicine, special issue "Medicine and the Inquisition, Twenty Years After: Novel Approaches and New Research," 23 (2018), 159-176.
• "Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala," in Few and Tortorici, eds., Centering Animals in Latin American History (Duke University Press, 2013), 62-92.
• (with Zeb Tortorici), "Introduction: Writing Animals into Latin American History," in Few and Tortorici, eds., Centering Animals in Latin American History (Duke University Press, 2013), 1-27.
• "Medical Humanitarianism and Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 37:3 (Summer 2012), 303-317.
• "Circulating Smallpox Knowledges: Guatemalan Doctors, Maya Indians, and Designing Spain's Royal Vaccination Expedition, 1780-1806," British Journal for the History of Science 43:4 (December 2010), 519-537.
• "Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala," in Vollendorf and Kostrun, eds., Gender and Religion in the Atlantic World (University of Toronto Press, 2009), 205-222.
• "'That Monster of Nature': Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a 'Hermaphrodite' in Late Colonial Guatemala," special issue "Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica," Ethnohistory 54:1 (Winter 2007), 159-176.
• "'Our Lord Entered His Body': Miraculous Healing and Children's Bodies in Colonial New Spain," in Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds. Religion in New Spain (University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 114-124.
• "Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala," Ethnohistory 52:4 (fall 2005), 673-687.