... worked in remote lands (today's Guerrero) and with rural local communities, the texts that he gathered provide a valuable insight into earlier sources that originated in the major cultural centers of New Spain, including precontact painted codices. The bulk of the Treatise is composed of incantations...

... treatises for a total of 73 chapters. The first deals with the objects of native adoration, specified and condemned by the author, such as fire, piles of rocks, and especially hallucinogenic drugs. The second takes up a long series of incantations and methods of witchcraft in order to succeed in farming...

.... But in a serious, scholarly book, that needs to be shown, demonstrated, and illustrated, not simply asserted like an incantation. It really would be useful, as sociologists and communications specialists write more about politics, for them to really know the literature, and to understand what politics is all about...

... themselves as wards of Haiti. Major Smedley Butler, whose anti-imperialistic incantations have been quoted by many scholars, is here cited for his contributions to this paternalistic discourse. As the trainer of the Haitian security forces, Butler initially expressed some pride in training “my little black...

... ideas, though this does not appear to happen in the essays. Among the authors addressing the third theme, Viviana Díaz Balsera analyzes a protective incantation uttered by a minor official from the indigenous town of Iguala, New Spain, in the early seventeenth century. She convincingly claims...

... into a knot while reciting a particular incantation so that “he would be tied to her for his whole life.” Bello warned that this was a powerful spell, as it would hold even if the woman later decided to “throw [the knot] into the sea or burn it.” 58 Women across the Caribbean in the seventeenth century...

..., incantations, names and nicknames specific to their jargon than on physiognomic sleuthing or criminological casuistry. His first chapter, which examines the emergence of Cuba’s hampa, concludes with a fluid conception of race and its effect on cultural change: “Ethnicity is the fundamental factor,” he...

... Nationalistic social criticism was initially the work of individuals in Lima; only slowly did intellectuals in provincial capitals such as Trujillo, Arequipa, and Cuzco become aware of a national crisis. More important, many also persisted in confronting great problems in terms of the moral incantation...

... and outright idolatry. Incantations, divinations, the wearing of masks on feast days, the blessing of the fields, the enacting of popular myths and legends, and the practice of sorcery were often perceived by the inexperienced parish priest as popular practices that could be understood within the penumbra...

... was the choice poetic device for vocalizing this mythic foundation in Nahuatl, Maya, and other languages. 64 Perhaps the variant closest to the constitutional declaration here can be found in witchcraft incantations, such as the paired refrain zan mompampa onitlatzatzilica . . . zan mopampa...