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Hispanic American Historical Review (1932) 12 (4): 476.
Published: 01 November 1932
...J. Fred Rippy Copyright 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 The Alamo, Altar of Texas Liberty . By Chabot Frederick C. . ([ San Antonio ]: 1931 . Pp. xi , 141 . Maps and illus .) The Mission of San Antonio de Padua . By Smith Frances Rand . ( Stanford : Stanford...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Guadalupe Jiménez Codinach Dolores antes de la independencia: Microhistoria del altar de la Patria . By Guadalajara Juan Carlos Ruiz . Zamora and Mexico City : El Colegio de Michoacán / El Colegio de San Luis / Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 366–367.
Published: 01 May 2019
...David Carey, Jr. Alone at the Altar: Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670–1870 . By Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 297 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2019...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1929) 9 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 May 1929
...Philip Ainsworth Means Copyright 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 Coricancha, el Templo del Sol en el Cuzco y las Imágenes de su Altar mayor . By Lehmann-Nitsche R. , Jefe del Departamento de Antropología del Museo de La Plata. ( Buenos Aires : In Revista del Museo de La...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1931) 11 (3): 360–361.
Published: 01 August 1931
...J. Lloyd Mecham Idols Behind Altars . By Brenner Anita . ( New York : Payson and Clarke , 1929 . Pp. 359 . $5.00 .) Copyright 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 May 2022
... made of native camelid wool and cotton, worn by royal elites and used as wrappings for mummies. The Spanish employed it to cover altars, walls, and floors. Stanfield-Mazzi shows how at first locally produced altar frontals often combined Inca death imagery, notably skulls, with Christ's stigmata. Later...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 574–576.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... Furthermore, the enormous variety of santos on home altars throughout the borderlands attests to the kaleidoscope of icons serving religious needs and preferences in the region. Every author, however, is entitled to a point of view and Pescador makes his case strongly and often eloquently. The most...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 439–469.
Published: 01 August 2018
... the religious nature of the ceremony. An unnamed journalist for La Patria reported on a trinity of Chinese deities on the temple altar whom he equated to Catholic saints: [The Chinese] gathered in the San Pedro Pagoda . . . before an altar adorned only with three statues or wooden figures, similar to our...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 403–405.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of indirect exchange with the dead, but this was a difficult ideal for the poor to meet, given their limited capacity to make donations. As a result, the downtrodden looked for an unmediated relationship with their loved ones’ souls by constructing domestic altars and offering food for the deceased during...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 392–394.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... First, she challenges the traditional inclination toward studying individual religious systems independently of other closely related ones by demonstrating the coexistence of multiple religions within a single religious center. Second, she interprets the deliberate photographing of religious altars...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 February 2013
.... And there was much to be done, as it appeared everything had been neglected, including the altar. Haro shared his lingering doubts with his wife on the way home and, with her encouragement, resolved to make an altar frontal, canopy, and fine linens for Mass, and help restore the chapel and its devotion. Haro and his...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 604.
Published: 01 August 1969
... Tourist beware I “Spain is not a land of fleshly comforts, or of social sensual civilization. Oh! dura tellus Iberiae!— God there sends the meat, and the evil one cooks:—there are more altars than kitchens— des milliers de prêtres et pas un cuisinier” (p. 1183). This warning was written by Richard...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (2): 359–360.
Published: 01 May 1976
... hovels that served as chapels, altar candles made of sheep fat, are described in detail, as well as his personal struggles with the natives who remained loyal to Mexican traditions. Some of the accounts of Lamy’s life, especially the journeys he made, are repetitious and overly detailed. Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 547.
Published: 01 August 1968
.... The stated possibility is “confirmed” using tertiary historical sources, questionable ethnohistory, and no archaeology. It can be inferred from the photographs that an unfettered imagination has transformed natural features into the remains of temples, sacrificial altars, and sacred wells; artifactual...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 314.
Published: 01 May 1963
... to a shark, Peralta calls the U. S. “an elephant, whose hoof tramples, crushes, and destroys,” “a rapacious eagle,” “a nation whose altar is a strong-box and whose divinity is the dollar.” Latin statesmen do have legitimate grievances against American policy, most ably spelled out by American scholars...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1961) 41 (2): 312.
Published: 01 May 1961
.... The author describes the highly ornamented temples, pyramids, ball courts, altars, and stelae covered with hieroglyphs, which constituted the acropolis of a Maya city; but the question as to why this mysterious people abandoned their magnificent cities remains perforce unanswered. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (3): 598.
Published: 01 August 1984
... excavated. Functionally, this number is composed of 4 temples, 4 palaces, 2 ballcourts, and 3 miscellaneous structures. One can only regret that the excavation plan did not more carefully take account of the greater diversity of functional structures suggested by Smith’s own work at Altar de Sacrificios...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 307–308.
Published: 01 May 1967
... a handsome altar-piece” (p. 25). For the would-be visitor to Spain who enjoys seeking the past in out-of-the-way places this book offers sixteen itineraries that range over northern Spain. While this area may be associated with some of the conquistadores , the reader will have a difficult time...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1961) 41 (2): 316.
Published: 01 May 1961
... and nineteenth centuries to decorate the churches and household altars of the Spanish colonial villages along the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico and the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Few of these isolated villages had a resident priest, even fewer could afford to import sacred images from Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (1): 101–102.
Published: 01 February 1962
... the Protestant churches have attempted to extirpate it. “Today,” he writes, “many a Haitian who participates in the rites of Vodoun on Saturdays worships in a Catholic chapel on Sunday” (p. 6). Photograph number 20 shows a Vodoun altar that “is scarcefuly distinguishable from a Catholic shrine.” This reviewer...
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