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...George Huaco The theoretical interpretation is rather peculiar. Taussig appeals to Marx’s description of how peasant use value was transformed into exchange value by the capitalist market: “In the case of the devil contract in the plantation cane fields, this imperiled [peasant] tradition...

... and indiscriminate misuse of maternal and paternal surnames (which suggests less than full acquaintance with Spanish genealogical custom); and occasional spelling (or typographical) errors, Handy’s Gift of the Devil makes a positive contribution. Given his favorable view of the revolution, it is not surprising...

...Martina Will de Chaparro The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians, and the Devil . By Ebright Malcolm and Hendricks Rick . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography...

... reading of the appropriate primary sources, especially Inquisition records. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil . By Souza Laura De Mello E . Translated by Whitty Diane Grosklaus...

...Eric Van Young The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain . By Cervantes Fernando . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1994 . Map. Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index , x , 182 pp. Cloth . $22.50 . An Evil Lost to View...

...Donald R. Walker Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas . By Limón José E. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1994 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 240 pp. Cloth , $42.00 . Paper , $15.95...

...John Te Paske The Spanish Conquistadores: Men or Devils? By Bannon John Francis . New York , 1960 . Holt, Rinehart and Winston . Source Problems in World Civilization . Bibliography . Pp. 43 . Paper . $0.75 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

...Erick D. Langer Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco . By Gordillo Gastón R. . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Maps. Bibliography . xvii , 304 pp. $23.95 . Paper . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007...

... As the editors point out in their helpful introduction, angels' immateriality and benign nature make them elusive and incomprehensible to the modern mind, so that the devil not only “has the best lines” (p. 1), but he and his minions have also garnered a lion's share of popular fascination and academic attention...

.... barbara weinstein and catherine legrand Lisa Sousa began the presentations with a paper entitled “Sex, Violence, and the Devil in Early Mexico.” She explored the connections between indigenous culture and the image of the Devil through such concepts as nahualism , the tlacatecolotl...

... political-economic context, he underplays the political dimension of the indigenous reaction to Catholicism, and fails to address the contradictions its imposition entailed. As Taussig (The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America , 1980) suggests, in colonial and neocolonial contexts ritual...

... they conquered, and their colonial descendants from the first years of the Spanish invasion until the middle of the seventeenth century; and a careful exegesis of the contemporary colonial sources—mostly Spanish, but some indigenous—whose assumptions about deity and devil, imagination and society infused...

... and at such length on the act of writing itself. Fewer still linked the devil and nausea so directly to the precarious role of author. The omnipresence of the devil and his minions is, of course, a prominent motif in the first-person works of major figures like St. Teresa and in the lives of lesser-known...

... of witchcraft itself hearkens back to the Spaniards’ Judeo-Christian background, and they were quick to blame untoward events on the devil. Never fully comprehending traditional culture, they attributed the Indians’ practice of witchcraft to otherwise inexplicable occurrences. Whether Indians considered...

... was clearly determined, and United States policy in the summer of 1960 only speeded up the process. Even if one agrees with socialism, logic should not be sacrificed to the “devil theory” of history. Devils, however, seem to be a vital part of Marxist theology. ...

... imagine that undergraduate students would particularly appreciate Cushner’s clarity, and students and teachers alike will appreciate the study questions and the suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter of the book. Among the larger issues, Cushner focuses on coercion, the Devil...

... reputedly made a pact with the devil. By stressing the campesinos’ gender-based admiration for the pactmaker’s successes, the author successfully argues that there is not necessarily a relation between peasant-worker conceptions of devil-inspired, ill-acquired wealth and a proletarian critique of class...

... Council created a new history for both church and Indians, defining all local practices that did not conform to its decrees as pre-Hispanic and the work of the devil, who was presumed to have introduced practices and rituals that copied the true faith in order to lead the Indians astray. To ensure...

... recently pioneered by several scholars, including Fernando Cervantes’s The Devil in the New World (Yale Univ. Press, 1994). Cañizares-Esguerra goes further by juxtaposing evidence from the Spanish side with that from Puritan New England. He argues that “British Protestants and Spanish Catholics deployed...

... practices and beliefs into their sexual habits. Jacqueline S. Holler suggests in her chapter that the devil figured prominently in unnatural activities, especially for women, whom the Catholic clergy understood as especially susceptible to evil temptations. Simultaneously, women invoked the devil—whether he...