{"title":"Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices. By Cheryl Claassen and Laura Ammon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 396. Figures. Tables. Glossary. References. Index. $132.00 cloth.","authors":"Jfs","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.26","url":null,"abstract":"This is a unique and curious book. Using a dictionary format, the authors deal with a long list of religious concepts, comparing each as it was considered in fifteenth-century Spain, precontact Mexico, sixteenth-century Spain, and sixteenth-century Mexico. The concepts listed, 140 of them, are an odd lot: some clearly come from Christianity (baptism, communion, crucifix, original sin, and the like) while others come from the religion of the Mexica (arrow, bird, eagle, sacred bundle). Others seem to be vague enough to allow for comparison (creation, dance, death, flower).","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"86 1","pages":"381 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76510479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratives of Blackness in Buenos Aires","authors":"E. Edwards","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.16","url":null,"abstract":"the Wrath of God is one of these. The essay is sharp, encouraging readers to ponder the multiplicity of identities historical characters assume and presenting a primary source to convey voice through different means than film. The process for deciding which essays to carry over from that book to this one is not always clear to the reader, but the pieces are uniformly stimulating, lending themselves to classroom assignment if students are watching a specific film discussed in the book. In fact, one could easily imagine the table of contents of this volume serving as a kind of syllabus for a course on Latin American history in film.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"172 1","pages":"364 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76914426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Confounded Statistic: Turn-of-the-Century Mexican Agriculture in Incommensurable Terms","authors":"C. M. Lurtz","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1899, municipal officials throughout Mexico sent tables of agricultural statistics to Mexico City to assist in the preparation of a special publication for the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, where the Mexican government hoped it would impress the world with Mexico's modernity and potential. Though the activity was nothing new, the ways in which municipal officials provided the requested information confounded the national project of both understanding and representing the Mexican countryside. The statistics were never published. This article serves as an introduction to a new dataset and collection of maps built from transcriptions of the manuscript tables. It also demonstrates that regular participation in statistical undertakings served as a means for provincial Mexicans to complicate and confound the process of state consolidation. Here I see, rather than refusal or rebellion, ready participation in state knowledge projects as another way in which those beyond Mexico City managed their relationships with President Porfirio Díaz's technocratic government. Engaging with conceptions of governmentality on one side and data management on the other, I use the 1899 agricultural statistics to highlight how unruly participation in data collection frustrated the practice's centralizing and standardizing project.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"4 1","pages":"291 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76142019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mexican American Civil Rights and Pentecostalism","authors":"Andrea Shan Johnson","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.19","url":null,"abstract":"Anglo-American, and African-descended people were all implicated in Texas Borderlands slavery to varying degrees” (9). He also discusses “Hispanic colonialism” and “Hispanic-Native relations” frequently throughout the text, which muddies the distinctions between Spanish and Mexican authorities and their political motivations. To this reviewer, the term reads as an anachronistic use of a loaded modern identity category.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"7 1","pages":"369 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85308257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-Border Resistance to the Porfiriato","authors":"M. Ruiz","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.14","url":null,"abstract":"book, the arguments Fowler advances are nevertheless useful for understanding how and why theWar of Reform came to happen in 1857 and for studying the numerous other civil wars that have taken place in Latin America since then. The book begins with a presentation of Fowler’s proposed “grammar,” a series of tables or “small-scale map” (14) that outlines the geopolitical context, political actions, and social, cultural, and economic issues that condition the outbreak of civil war, its development, and its resolution. This multifaceted list of causes and consequences highlights the interaction between individuals (their will, action, and planning) and their circumstances (social, racial, economic, and cultural structures). It suggests that civil wars, in common with all historical events, derive from a complex interdependency of factors. As the disciples of the Annales School insisted, “total history” is needed if we are to comprehend any civil war fully.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"2 1","pages":"361 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87032816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memoriam: Ray Sadler","authors":"William H. Beezley","doi":"10.1017/tam.2022.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2022.99","url":null,"abstract":"Ray, born February 5, 1937 in Newton, Mississippi, grew up in nearby Union. Through high school, he had a successful career as a Boy Scout, earning the Eagle award and the William T. Hornaday Award for a major conservation project. Marking his scouting achievement, Ray was chosen to present the annual Boy Scout review to the state governor. He entered Mississippi State University as a forestry major, but soon discovered journalism as he worked in sports information and on the university paper. He spent his college summers at the Jackson Daily News, where he took a job after graduation. At the newspaper, he met Betty Miller, and they married in 1961.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"18 1","pages":"345 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90853019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reducción General de Indios on Peru's North Coast","authors":"D. A. Gonzales Escudero","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"Parker Van Valkenburgh’s book is an essential contribution to Peruvian colonial history, as it addresses a historiographical gap. Even though the literature that studies the process of reducciones de indios is becomingmore extensive, what is not growing steadily are studies of local situations. In this sense, the book’s most important contribution is to show the local conditions before, during, and after the reducción on the northern coast of Peru, particularly in Zaña. It is an example of how a process whose scope was intended to be global was localized.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"53 1","pages":"349 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75846808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testimonial of Survival: Peru's Internal Conflict","authors":"Ricardo D. Cubas Ramacciotti","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"32 1","pages":"376 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82151795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Independence Era in Costa Rica","authors":"Michael L. Conniff","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"Battered by the upheavals of the nineteenth century, San Hipólito was secularized during the Liberal Reform era, and it managed to survive until Mexico’s first fully modern psychiatric facility opened in the early twentieth century. Even though the author summarizes events of post-independence history in the book’s conclusion, these events are addressed only briefly, as they lie beyond the well-chosen focus of the study.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"56 1","pages":"355 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86883544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicalization of Madness in the Eighteenth Century","authors":"R. Warren","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"16 1","pages":"354 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88280385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}