...Susan Schroeder 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.1_04 Schroeder 2/11/00 4:34 PM Page 43 Jesuits, Nahuas, and the Good Death Society in Mexico City, 1710–1767 Susan Schroeder This congregation was...

...Frances Karttunen Nahuatl Theater. Vol. 1. Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico. Edited by barry sell and louise m. burkhart. Foreword by miguel león-portilla. Norman:University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 337 pp. Cloth, $49.95...

...Winifred Tate Death Squads or Self Defense Forces? How Paramilitary Groups Emerge and Challenge Democracy in Latin America . By Mazzei Julie . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2009 . Map. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 261 pp. Paper, $22.50 . Copyright...

...Alberto Zambrana Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532 – 1670 . By Ramos Gabriela . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2010 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 356 pp. Paper...

...Javier Villa-Flores Death and the Idea of Mexico . By CLAUDIO LOMNITZ. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 581 pp. Cloth, $34.00. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 General Book Reviews...

...Celia L. Cussen Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America . Edited by Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim. Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vi, 276 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press...

... possess distinctly differ- ent, complementary, roles” ( p. 10). The next chapter, “Living with Death,” underscores the prominence of blood, violence, and human sacrifice in ideology and daily life. The author details men’s and women’s participation as deities, religious practitioners, and the...

...Volker Frank The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende: A Case of Assisted Suicide . By JONATHAN HASLAM. London: Verso, 2005. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 225 pp. Cloth, $23.00. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Book Reviews General The Social and...

...John S. Leiby The Treasure of the San José: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession . By carla rahn phillips. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2007. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 258 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Copyright 2008 by Duke...

... 1990s, mareros had metamorphosed into “the gangs to die for.” They participated in tight groups aiming to fight to death against rival clikas (cells). Unlike the mareros of the 1980s, few would even talk to her. Nor would they respond to other researchers — demonstrating the difficulty of most current...

...Rebecca Earle Body Politics: Death, Dismemberment, and Memory in Latin America. Edited by lyman l. johnson. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Index. xvii, 354 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $22.95. Duke University Press 2006...

...Amber Brian The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City . By Barbara E. Mundy . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography...

... epidemic. Press coverage in turn helped promote and validate a technocratic perspective that some historians label scientific liberalism, which persisted well after the 1910 revolution. Third, Death in the City teases out the gendered nature of official, media, and scientific representations of...

...Christopher Vecsey Being-in-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South. By miles richardson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Plate. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix...

...Ben Fallaw 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Life and Deaths of Felipa Poot: Women, Fiction, and Cardenismo in Postrevolutionary Mexico Ben Fallaw On the night of 28 March 1936, gunmen linked to a cacique killed a young peasant leader in the village of Kinchil in...

... of the regime. Porto’s death in 1968 coincided with an intensification of regime repression that made his style of moderate opposition increasingly untenable. Porto’s example inspired the more self-consciously rebellious new journalists of the subsequent stage of the dictatorship, particularly the...

...Edward Blumenthal Abstract This article analyzes through the prism of exile and return the journey of General Juan Lavalle's remains from the battlefield to Bolivia, Chile, and then Buenos Aires. After the death of Lavalle at the hands of Federalist militias in Jujuy province in 1841, his followers...

... geopolitical changes and local economic and political crises of the 1820s. The illness and death of key actors compounded these uncertainties. Drawing on published and manuscript correspondence, memoirs, and the naturalists' findings, in addition to a close reading of changes made to French-printed maps, this...

... the Jesus estate—one an illegitimate child, the other a former slave—reveals complex social and legal dynamics that surrounded debates over illegitimacy and family rights throughout the nineteenth century. Digging deeper into the life story of the African-descended grandfather whose death sparked the...