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... research, the present volume aims at a comprehensive understanding of this “intrinsic gift.” Chávez (director of the Palace of the Governors in the New Mexican museum system) frames the Spanish contribution broadly, moving from affairs in western Europe to address the full American theater—although...

...Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Handy’s Gift will hardly be welcomed by defenders of the old elite or by those who remain committed to the liberal tradition, which has dominated much of Guatemala’s historiography for more than a century. Handy represents, both in his own research and in his synthesis...

...Junia Ferreira Furtado The Gift is heir to the new historiographical methodologies that, initially inspired by archaeology, have opened historians’ eyes to the history of objects, through which the history of humans can be reconstructed. Ana Lucia Araujo reveals the history of La Rochelle...

...Susan G. Polansky Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World . By Norton Marcy . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Index . xiv , 339 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright 2010...

... America during the late colonial period. Similar strategies developed independently in response to Indian power and not in response to the lessons of the past. One of Weber’s more fascinating themes is the shifting cultural line between gift-giving and bribery. Among kin-based societies like...

... an alliance between them. Johan Maurits eventually gilded the plate, added some personal inscriptions, and gave it to the Calvinist church of Siegen, where it still can be found. In this chapter, the author also stresses how important gifts had become for forging alliances with different indigenous tribes...

... projects, from an Indigenous vantage. Further comparison with Florida might be helpful. Indigenous leaders in Florida, arguably as formidable as Opechancanough, chose to ally with the presidio, extracting gifts from a fund for gastos de indios (Indian expenses). In exchange, caciques sent workers...

... doggedly sustained “substantive mutuality,” “that cluster of ideas, actions, and commitments anchored in gift, reciprocity, and redistribution binding societies across time” (p. 2). He details the erosion of substantive mutuality in European philosophical thought and Paraguayan colonial society and its...

... by the crown in times of financial need. Extraordinary loans, donativos (gifts), and services requested from Spanish vassals have been the subject of much controversy because they epitomized Spanish intrusion and preying on vassals' and colonies' wealth. Guillermina del Valle Pavón's Negociación, lágrimas y...

... important reward of the ceremony may be the revelation of his destiny. The Huicholes believe men are put on earth for a purpose determined by the gods. Some men are destined to be ordinary farmers while others are fated to receive a special gift for curing, singing, and ceremonial leadership. Such gifts...

... property to marry and establish themselves, yet parents typically channeled the necessary property through their daughters and not through their sons. Only 3 out of 35 families with adult sons had given gifts of property to those sons during their parents’ lifetime. In contrast, daughters never went...

... regulated the relationship of the king vis-à-vis the donatary, while the foral dealt with the obligations of the inhabitants of the senhorio toward their lord, and was usually issued by him as a kind of gracious gift or mini-constitution. 17 Why, then, was the foral for Pernambuco not issued...

... Indian slavery. The chapter “Policy of Presents” contains lists of goods procured and distributed, and amounts authorized for purchasing gifts, as well as the pros and cons of making gifts to Indians. The book is preceded by a brief general introduction identifying the principal themes illustrated...

.... xi , 347 . Cloth. $16.00 . Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Dr. Antonio de Morga (1559-1636) was an energetic, gifted and versatile bureaucrat who served under three kings in the audiencias of the Philippines, Mexico, and Quito. Pious and sensual, petty and gifted with vision...

... also with deeds and writings of gifted individuals. The value of Nieto Arteta’s work lies not in its completeness—for it does not pretend to be a comprehensive history—but rather in the fact that it presents a stimulating, well-documented interpretation containing ideas that every research scholar...

... the grand manner. Roca’s career is not set against the burgeoning economic and cultural development of a newly-consolidated Argentina. The reader will not find here the subtle and complex interplay between individual and events. Newton announces the thesis that Roca, a gifted soldier, was an even more...

... shared 64 years of marriage and by whom, with his sister, Judith, he is survived. His character was exemplary: always generous, courteous, painstakingly helpful, incapable of wrath or resentment, and slow to make adverse judgments of others. He was kind even in criticism. He had that gift...

... community well-being. Gift exchange helps households meet resource needs at critical times during the festival cycle and creates a sense of interdependency and alliance among the participating households. The author argues that mayordomo positions within the cargo system also perform important economic...

... there, the stones were “sucked into the gift economies of South and southwestern Asia” (p. 144). He and his colleagues then invested the profits in consumer goods that were traded for African slaves destined for Cartagena (p. 107). Thus Fonseca Enríquez exemplified the Caribbean facet of intersecting commercial...