... / General 501 South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text. By catherine davies, claire brewster, and hilary owen. Liverpool Latin American Studies, new series, 7. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. Plates. Map. Notes. Bibliography...

... diverse collection, and the detailed and highly informative footnotes further embellish the essays. Even those readers who are well versed in tango history will learn a great deal from Tango Lessons . Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice . Edited by Miller...

...Owen Jones Christensen's book analyzes a single religious text that the Maya of Teabo collectively authored and shared. The authors not only relied on synthesizing Maya beliefs with Christianity but exhibit a synthesis of several saints' works and their approaches to theology and Christian dogma...

... receiving the attention they deserve. In 1982, José Tomás López García pub- lished Jaca’s Spanish text and translated Moirans’s Latin manuscript in Dos defensores de los esclavos negros en el siglo XVII (Caracas: Universidad Cátolica Andrés Bello). Two decades later, Miguel Anxo Pena González edited...

... overpainting of earlier pictographs, followed by a briefer discussion of the Nahuatl texts added by each annotator. This order of presentation and the separation of the alphabetic from the visual information may disgruntle readers who prefer a simple sequential reading, but it makes better sense con...

...Asunción Lavrin Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in Context . By Taylor William B. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Index. ix, 149 pp. Cloth , $34.95 . Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico...

... new research. All researchers of religion, European visions of local people, local elites, language contact, and economy in fifteenth- to seventeenth-century Inca and colonial Peru should read the book. Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560–1650 . By...

...David Tavárez Translated Christianities: Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts . By Christensen Mark Z. . Latin American Originals . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2014 . Map. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 135 pp. Paper , $29.95...

...Louise M. Burkhart This paper traces the history of a catechetical quiz widely used in colonial New Spain. A succinct summary of Jerónimo de Ripalda's catechism directed at less “capable” Christians, the text makes its first appearance in works published in the 1630s by secular clergy posted in...

...Corinna Zeltsman Abstract This article explores how printers and their collaborators shaped the implementation and interpretation of freedom of the press laws in early republican Mexico City. Far from passive reproducers of texts written by elites, printers and other behind-the-scenes actors...

... create, consume, and contest them. Over the last decade, the maps themselves have become increasingly accessible, as important research libraries and archives digitize their holdings. Yet these graphic texts are not yet staples of college curricula or documentary readers. This essay provides a brief...

.... Through analysis of bilingual missionary texts and a unique corpus of Zapotec-language criminal records, this article highlights the role of indigenous judges as translators and innovators of legal procedure, notarial form, and criminal discourse. As they prosecuted crimes in Indian tribunals while...

...Paulina L. Alberto Abstract This article analyzes the rich corpus of stories about the dandy-turned-beggar Raúl Grigera, a popular Afro-Argentine street figure from early 1900s Buenos Aires. Stories about El Negro Raúl, told in hundreds of printed texts and images across multiple genres from the...

... overlapping and interrelated. The commission’s texts and images linked a catastrophic interpretation of geologic origins to historia patria (patriotic history). The commissioners merged the wars of conquest and independence into a two-act drama enacted on a singular territorial stage. Their reading of...

...Kathryn Burns We are rapidly revising Angel Rama's concept of the “lettered city” ( la ciudad letrada ) to include indigenous writers and their texts. So far, however, Andeanists have focused mainly on those who wrote in Quechua or used quipu , a distinctively Andean form of record keeping. This...

... Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, is probably the earliest dated Nahuatl document known to date. This essay, apart from transcribing and translating this brief, important testimony that deals with the extirpation of old beliefs, sets the text in the wider social, political, and religious context of the...

...Galen Brokaw Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His “Nueva corónica.” Edited by Rolena Adorno and Ivan Boserup . Danish Humanist Text and Studies . Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press , 2015 . Photographs. Illustration. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies...

... of what are and should be ideal creole appearances and comportment” (p. xii). Then, enacting a typical form of instability, the exemplary text attempts to reconcile this contradiction or heterogeneity by striving for “a cohesive ideal or lesson” (p. xii). In its ambiguity, the exemplary mode in these...

... keywords particular to festival texts and a carefully selected array of corresponding primary sources, reproduced as either facsimile images or critical editions in modernized Spanish text. The glossary provides an understated but profound intertextual perspective on common usages of an obscure lexicon of...

... twentieth century Europe had been transformed into the source of the region’s problems. Adelman has coauthored a world history text, and so he is able to delve concretely into the problems of writing world history from a Latin Americanist perspective. In doing so, he shows how Latin America has made its...