... marks an important contribution to a very complex subject that merits further study. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-031 Book Reviews 697 Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala...

... Guatemala. By Diane M. Nelson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xix + 427 pp., maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper.) Edward F. Fischer, Vanderbilt University...

... to the title of Marc Augé’s Símbolo, función e historia. Interrogantes de la antropología (México City, 1979). The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation. By Greg Grandin. (Durham, Duke University Press, 2000. xx + 343...

...Brian Stross Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala . By Deuss Krystyna . ( London : Guatemalan Maya Centre , 2007 . 334 pp., preface, introduction, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $55.00 paper.) Copyright 2014...

...Thomas H. Guderjan Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala . Edited by Rice Prudence M. and Rice Don S. . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2009 . 458 pp., preface, references, index . $22.95 paper.) Copyright 2011...

.... 10.1215/00141801-2007-072 346 Book Reviews Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala. Edited by Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...David Carey, Jr. During the first half of the twentieth century, Guatemala was dominated by two of Latin America's most repressive regimes: first that of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898-1920) and then that of General Jorge Ubico (1931-44). Though the marketplace was one venue through which...

... in contrast to the cultural and economic assimilation of Mayas informs both Guatemalan and scholarly attitudes about Mayas today. The essay recontextualizes this position by discussing a specific cultural event—the annual fairs that Ubico organized to highlight Guatemala's economic and technological potential...

...Leslie S. Offutt Review Essay Rereading Conquest: Recent Works on the Conquests of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia Leslie S. Offutt,Vassar College Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Con- quest of Mexico. Edited by Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret...

... of the Gran Chaco. doi 10.1215/00141801-2010-053 La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala. By Severo Martínez Peláez. Translated by Susan M. Neve and W. George Lovell. Edited and introduced by W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009...

.... As Book Reviews 763 such, both Gordillo and Langer do justice to the native peoples whose very lives lie at the heart of the Gran Chaco. doi 10.1215/00141801-2010-053 La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala. By Severo...

...David Carey, Jr. By Emilio del Valle Escalante. (Sante Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, 2009. x + 210 pp., bibliography, index. $29.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Grandin, Greg 2000 The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation . Durham, NC...

...Louise M. Burkhart Book Reviews 203 Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala. By Martha Few. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xiv + 188 pp., preface, glossary, notes, bibliography...

...Ueli Hostettler American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Ethnographic Perspectives in Maya Studies: Trends in Writing about Mayas in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize Ueli Hostettler, University of Bern, Switzerland La estructura y evolución demográfica de un sistema campesino: La pobla...

...Martha Few Chocolate, in the form of a hot chocolate beverage, was widely available to men and women of all ethnic and social groups in late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century Santiago de Guatemala, the capital city of colonial Central America. At the same time, chocolate acted as a central...

...David Carey, Jr. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala . By Weld Kirsten . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . 335 pp., acknowledgments, illustrations, bibliography, index . $99.95 cloth, $26.95 paper.) Copyright 2015 by American Society...

... Spanish. Indigenous literacies retreated to the domains of weaving and spirituality. Symbols from both the glyphic writing system and the iconography of precontact textiles gained new interpretations in these media. Change in Literacy and Literature in Highland Guatemala, Precontact to Present Judith...

...Sergio Romero The textual sources of indigenous Christianities in Guatemala embody a complex articulation of native thought, European language ideologies, and the diachronic development of the Christianization of different areas of Mesoamerica. The evangelization of the K'iche' became a model...

...Heather Vrana Book Reviews 201 The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, and Elizabeth Oglesby. (Durham, NC: Duke Uni- versity Press, 2011. xxiii + 663 pp., acknowledgments, introduction...