...Christoph Rosenmüller Les intendants de la vice-royauté de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1764–1821): Répertoire prosopographique . By Marie-Pierre Lacoste . Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez . Madrid : Casa de Velázquez , 2021 . Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index...

...John T. O’Connor Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siècle: Introduction et répertoire biographique (1700–1808) . By Ozanam Didier . In collaboration with Denise Ozanam. Collection de la Casa de Velázquez , vol. 64 ; Collection de la Maison des Pays Ibériques , vol. 72 . Madrid...

...Mercer Cook Artiste et répertoire des scenes de Saint-Domingue . By Fouchard Jean . Port-au-Prince , 1955 . Imprimerie de l’Etat . Pp. 271 . Paper. Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...Geneviève Dorais Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru . By Robert S. Jansen . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 246 pp. Paper , $37.50 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke...

... caudillos as protagonists, but most of the repertoire about them took the form of songs and stories. This repertoire was part of a politicized oral culture whose pieces circulated throughout the provinces, put the people from different regions in contact with politics and their protagonists...

... of the text. Good editions of poetic repertoires, such as the one published by Eichmann, can be very helpful in order to contextualize the symbolic meaning of texts to be sung. In all, Eichmann’s volume is a relevant contribution to our knowledge of the poetry in the musical repertoire of La Plata...

... more important than shared cultural practices around food, music, or sports in forging what Michael Billig called banal nationalism? Miller shows well the significance of her “repertoires of knowledge” to the formation of a sense of Argentine, or Chilean, identity. It's a little less clear to me...

... of the terms “Gold Coast” (for Côte d’Or) and “workshop” (for atelier) cause confusion in places. The slave trade chapter curiously makes no use of the Mettas’ Répertoire . A reference (p. 27) to the Portuguese allowing trade on the southern Angola coast is intriguing—or should this read “northern”? Minor...

...-language repertoire of ethnographies of Brazilian tribes. The Tapirapé are Tupian speakers, intrusive into northern Mato Grosso. Surrounded by Ge speakers, they have adopted certain social and religious practices from these neighbors. At the time of Wagley’s first visit, their population was about 200...

..., at times even prospered, in Mexico City. Its appeal crossed socioeconomic lines, offering a varied repertoire, talented performers, innovative choreography, and connections with major trends in the European and North American artistic communities. ...

... with corroborative manuscript evidence from Spanish archives. There are curious omissions from the standard repertoire of chronicles and edited collections— Diego de Landa receives only passing reference, for example—and some welcome additions, like Francisco Cárdenas y Valencia, who rarely appears in any...

... and the usual repertoire of published primary sources, chiefly sixteenth-century chronicles and documentary collections (e.g., Paso y Troncoso’s Papeles de la Nueva España) . Major recent historiographical contributions receive relatively little attention; for example, Woodrow Borah’s monumental work...

... is the author’s thesis that these thinkers successfully married a corporatist view of society to a doctrine of social justice and anti-imperialism that “shaped the political repertoire of most anti-liberal political leaders following the military upheaval of 1930” (p. 3). Spektorowski goes on to note...

... of cuzqueño popular art undertaken by the Instituto Americano de Arte, founded in 1937 by the neo-indigenist writer Uriel García. All these examples show how self-taught and popular artists interacted with the criollo and mestizo musicians of the elite to develop new styles and repertoires that were soon...

... with a supernatural authority but instead to generate an awareness of the country's struggles to create a sovereign nation and to instill nationalism, forging an identity based upon the diversity of regional cultures. What the author calls the “eclectic repertoires” of the Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca's (BME...

... and the generals of the order as well as the books of consultations and precepts, constitute a fundamental repertoire of sources for reconstructing Jesuits' action in its various spheres and levels. Fechner shows in a clear and detailed way how the circuit of Jesuitical decision making worked, involving many...

... festivals, the importation of Argentine films as well as the production of new Hollywood films with Latin American themes, and the apparent ubiquity of Carmen Miranda, the Portuguese-born Brazilian who came to symbolize all of Latin America. Tango found its way into the repertoires of bandleaders...

...,” “symbolic repertoires,” “modes of seeing,” and “worlds of orality” appear from time to time. Most importantly, this work also suggests that the commonly held view of European immigration as creating highly literate societies in Argentina and Uruguay should be revised to take into account earlier examples...

.... This exclusion led to all these groups' expulsion from Mexican territory in the following years. Finally, in a nuanced and detailed essay, Pablo Yankelevich explores the roots of Mexican anti-Semitism both in Christian traditions and in modern racist ideologies. He discusses how these repertoires were applied...

... and Steven Palmer have shown for other parts of Latin America: that, far from merely copying European medicine, Latin Americans developed a “mestizo” repertoire that mixed European and indigenous knowledge. Another continuity was the use of midwives in childbirth throughout the nineteenth century. Although...