... 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...

... 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...

... Nahuatl and Pipil in Colonial Guatemala: A Central American Counterpoint Laura E. Matthew, Marquette University Sergio F. Romero, University of Texas at Austin Abstract. Nahuatl has often been described as a lingua franca in colonial Central America, but this conclusion has rested...

... volume, Early focuses primarily on the Maya of Guatemala and Chiapas, their worldview, and the responses to Catholicism it inspired. Importantly, the book also includes ample evidence of how the Maya world- view affected the worldview of Catholic priests. Certainly, the overarching theme...

...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...

...Néstor I. Quiroa The highland Guatemala títulos are part of a corpus of colonial Mesoamerican indigenous texts composed by native authors in the middle of the sixteenth century. These texts present an “official” version of native “history” based on the precolonial oral tradition and influenced...

...Jessica Joyce Christie The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala . By Way J. T. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . 310 pp., maps, acknowledgements, appendix, notes, glossary, index . $13.21 paper.) Copyright 2014...

...Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos A major debate in the history of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala revolves around Tecum (Tecún Umán), the K'iche' captain who died in confrontation with Pedro de Alvarado, according to sixteenth-century indigenous texts. Analysis of these texts shows that Tecum's...

...James H. McDonald Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala and the Politics of Death . By Levenson Deborah T. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . xi + 183 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, notes, bibliography, index . $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.) Copyright 2014...

...Stacey Schwartzkopf Nonindigenous, non-Spanish castas were a significant presence in late colonial Central America, yet their lives have remained opaque to historians, particularly in heavily indigenous rural areas such as western Guatemala. Drawing on detailed census correspondence, this article...

...Amara Solari Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. By O'Neil Megan E. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2012 . xvi + 328 pp., preface, introduction, color illustrations, black and white illustrations, maps, epilogue, references, index . $55.00 cloth...

...Peggy Goede Montalván Strange Lands and Different Peoples: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala . By Lovell W. George and Lutz Christopher , with Kramer Wendy and Swezey William R. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . xvii + 339 pp., preface, black...

...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...

... Nacional Autónoma de México . Asselbergs Florine 2008 Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, a Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala . Boulder : University Press of Colorado . Beaudry Marilyn 1984 Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Southeastern Maya...

...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 The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics . Edited by Grandin Greg , Levenson Deborah T. , and Oglesby Elizabeth . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xxiii + 663 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, color plates, bibliography, index...

..., and Vio- lence in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque, NM, 1998). DOI 10.1215/00141801-2010-087 Conquistadores de la Calle: Child Street Labor in Guatemala City. By Thomas A. Offit. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xi + 228 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendix...

...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...