María Pizarro: demoniac possession and the new epistemic controls in colonial Peru

Abstract

A reading of the forms of evil is proposed in the theological and philosophical keys of seventeenth-century colonial Peru. The founding case of María Pizarro as a textual body on the limits of colonization and its legitimating narratives. In addition, a discursive system of demonization is constructed and configures the new disciplinary order. In this way new systems of control of epistemology are installed and, with it, effective management of colonial revolutionary attempts.