... and meticulous research can go in overcoming the structural limits of the Borderlands field. Weber attributes the persistence of regional myths and stereotypes to the scarcity of comparative studies, an overreliance on nineteenth-century U.S. sources influenced by the Black Legend, and the appetite...

...Sabine MacCormack Our understanding of Inca, colonial, and contemporary Andean culture and religion depends significantly on how we define the relation between myth and history on the one hand and the interface between oral and written traditions on the other. Urton has made a significant...

...Elzbieta Sklodowska Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative . By Echevarría Roberto González . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 245 pp. Cloth . $44.50 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

...Clara Sotelo Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History . By Salas Elizabeth . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1990 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 163 pp. Cloth . $25.00 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

...Douglas W. Richmond The Myth of the Revolution: Hero Cults and the Institutionalization of the Mexican State, 1920-1940 . By O’Malley Ilene V. . Westport : Greenwood Press , 1986 . Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 199 . Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke...

...Richard Griswold Del Castillo Myth and History of the Hispanic Southwest: Essays by David J. Weber . By Weber David J. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1990 . Introduction. Index , xii , 179 pp. Paper . $12.95 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

...Richard N. Sinkin The Juárez Myth in Mexico . By Weeks Charles A. . University, AL : University of Alabama Press , 1987 . Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 204 . Cloth . $24.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 All countries have...

... Prophecy and Myth in Mexican History . By Brading D. A. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . Notes . Pp. 96 . Paper $4.95 . ...

...Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Cuba and the Revolutionary Myth: The Political Education of the Cuban Rebel Army, 1953-1963 . By Judson C. Fred . Boulder : Westview Press , 1984 . Maps. Notes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 294 . Paper. $22.50 . Copyright 1985 by Duke...

... have perpetuated a rich lore of mythology about themselves and each other. These myths are barriers to mutual understanding. . .. This book is an attempt to unmask the mythology that blocks understanding of Latin Americans by North Americans, and of North Americans by Latin Americans” (xii). Had...

...Robert Fuson, Dr. Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents. Myth and Method in the Study of American Indians . By Wauchope Robert . Chicago , 1962 . University of Chicago Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 155 . $3.95 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964...

... 2023 Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan . By Felipe Fernández-Armesto . Oakland : University of California Press , 2022 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Index. xvi , 361 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . ...

...Byron Hamann On one level, then, Florescano’s arguments seem to parallel Covarrubias’s chart after all: The Myth of Quetzalcoatl both illustrates and provides an explanation for striking continuities across time and space. Yet at the same time, Florescano insists that “Quetzalcoatl...

...Rick A. López La Revolución: Mexico’s Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History . By Benjamin Thomas . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2000 . Bibliography. Index . xi , 237 pp. Cloth , $40.00 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press 2001...

...Kirwin Shaffer The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba . By Guerra Lillian . Envisioning Cuba . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography . xii , 310 pp. Cloth , $59.95...

...León García Garagarza The Myth of Quetzalcoatl: Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World . By López Austin Alfredo . Translated by Davidson Russ with Olivier Guilhem . Foreword by Carrasco Davíd . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2015 . Illustrations...

...Michael J. Pisani Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence . By Florescano Enrique . Translated by Bork Albert G. with the assistance of Bork Kathryn R. . Austin ; University of Texas Press , 1994 . Illustrations. Figures. Notes. Bibliography...

...James Lockhart Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations . By Marcus Joyce . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . Illustrations. Tables. Index . xxii, 495 pp. Cloth. $45.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press...

...Ronald H. Dolkart Dossier Secreto: Argentina’s Desaparecidos and the Myth of the “Dirty War.” By Andersen Martin Edwin . Boulder : Westview Press , 1993 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 412 pp. Cloth, $59.00 . Paper, $17.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke...