...Seonaid Valiant In short, From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico is a valuable addition to the literature. Achim provides an engrossing account of the conflicted and contingent process through which the National Museum's early curators laid the foundations of what would...

... of the Spanish colonial project, as well as the pressures wrought on it by its contact with the Andean world, I believe it is essential to examine the links between the eradication of idols and the promotion of saints in colonial Peru. In the Spanish colonies, saints enjoyed—as they did in Catholic Europe...

... Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols . Edited by Miller Beth . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . Notes. Index. Pp. x , 373 . Cloth . $27.00 . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Spain’s First Women Writers, by Alan Deyermond...

... and Mayan conceptions of divine presence within miraculous images. But Spanish religion is not her focus, and this minor quibble certainly does not detract from this work's significant contributions. Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico . By Amara Solari . University Park...

...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 ...

... provided models for their possible cure. As the definition of idolatry was expanded to include all religious crimes committed by New Spain's indigenous population, it was severed from the material aspect (idol worship) that had originally defined it. The result was the conceptual conflation of two...

... of idols is material, sensual . . . and never spiritual.” The years which intervened between the destruction of the pagan temple at Tepeyac and Juan Diego’s experience there would surely have extinguished the “culto inespiritual” of Tonantzin. Besides, the graceful image of Guadalupe exhibits none...

... by a church minority, advancement-hungry local priests backed by an archbishop in Lima. It was modeled on the Inquisition, but it lacked the same material and institutional basis, and it was directed against a religious majority. The extirpators used the idea of the hechicero identified with an idolator...

..., a lack of balanced judgement also characterizes the work. A romantic liberal, the author manages both to idolize Chile’s past, calling colonial Santiago “the paradise of the New World” (p. 167), and to condemn conservative Spanish rule for creating a prejudiced, lazy, and cruel society during “those...

..., the examination of cemieism (religious spirits and idols), and contributions to the comparative study of religions. Its major weakness is chapter 2. Here the author reviews Taino studies to reconstruct their society and economy, a dangerous endeavor for the uninitiated. Those who are not familiar with Taino...

... sound nor documented. With an organization that defies analysis, the author takes us from Gaitán’s poverty-stricken youth, to his study of penology in Italy with Enrico Ferri, to his involvement in Liberal Party politics and his ultimate idolization by the masses. Not content with this, the author felt...

...), because the discovery of the General Mines in Brazil furnished them with gold: without Ouro Preto, Methuen’s treaty could scarcely have become the “idol of the Whig party.” Francis opens with a useful account of Portugal in the time of Pedro II. He does not refer to the English abandonment of Tangier...

... idolizes the archbishop, the tenor of the treatise does seem fairly objective. Unfortunately, as is the case with so many of the publications of Editorial Jus, there is no bibliography and no index, either of which would have added immeasurably to the overall usefulness of the work. This reviewer would...

... and the Revolutionary myths were supposed to emanate from the working class, who idolized Eva, but Taylor argues that they are a middle-class interpretation of how the working class felt about her. There is also a chapter devoted to the study of the role of the masses in Argentinian politics, in view of Eva’s close...

... 1987 In describing folk Catholicism, ethnographers have been obsessed with idols behind altars. Ingham’s book is a physic to this preoccupation. His central thesis is that rather than being a thin veneer over indigenous religion, the syncretism of Mexican folk Catholicism is more European than one...

... in sixteenth-century Europe. 1 Among the king’s diverse belongings were curiosities and marvelous objects that he had received from America. The Peruvian viceroy, don Francisco de Toledo, sent the king a variety of gifts during his time in office (1569 – 81), including stone idols, a 23-karat-gold llama...

... University Press 2001 Mansio Serra de Leguizamón has been called a rogue and a liar. As an encomendero in early colonial Cuzco, Peru, he told elaborate tales of his exploits in the conquest of the Inca empire. Among other boasts, he claimed to have received the Incas’ golden idol of the sun, stolen from...

... idols and adoption of Christian monogamy, and the reference to the expulsion of the Jesuits as part of a European campaign against the Church by such anti-Catholics as Gallicans and Jansenists. Nevertheless, this is an interesting and, in many ways, useful summary of the history of a very important area...

..., and it is not always easy to tell where you are on this spectrum. Even Vogt appears to lose his bearings occasionally, as when he says (p. 199): “A hypothesis corroborating the aboriginal nature of the talking saint is based on an extrapolation of the account of a talking idol encountered on the island of Cozumel...

..., humane approach to Las Casas. The Indians’ hostile response would not have surprised their former Protector. Indian dress, ceremony, weapons, idols, and temples attracted Tovilla, as did fruit and crops. Sufficiently self-centered to write the account, he also includes some of his correspondence...