The Americas

Volume 66 January  2010 Number 3

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CONTENTS

John F. Schwaller: Evangelization as Performance: Making Music, Telling Stories

Jonathan Truitt: Adopted Pedagogies: Nahua Incorporation of European Music and Theater in Colonial Mexico City

Kristin Dutcher Mann: Christmas in the Missions of Northern New Spain

Mark Z. Christensen: The Tales of Two Cultures: Ecclesiastical Texts and Nahua and Maya Catholicisms

Vincent Peloso: Dependency, History, and Scholarship: An Interview with Stanley Stein


BOOK REVIEWS

Brian A. Nelson: The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela, reviewed by Judith Ewell

ETHNOHISTORY & INDIGENOUS POLITICS

Guy Stresser-Péan: The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, reviewed by Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo

Sara Ortelli: Trama de una guerra conveniente: Nueva Vizcaya y la sombra de los apaches (1748-1790), reviewed by Cynthia Radding

FAMILY & GENDER STUDIES

Matthew Gutmann: Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico, reviewed by Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis: Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839, reviewed by Heather Hennes

Stephanie J. Smith: Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy, reviewed by Jocelyn Olcott

RELIGION & RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Hideaki Matsuoka: Japanese Prayer below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity, reviewed by Dan Masterson

Thomas Hart: The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya, reviewed by George L. Scheper

Edward Wright-Rios: Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934, reviewed by Brian Connaughton

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Susan Buck-Morss: Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History, reviewed by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

Mark Goodale: Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism, reviewed by Andrew Orta

Paul D. Almeida: Waves of Protest: Popular Struggles in El Salvador, 1925-2005, reviewed by Lawrence Michael Ladutke

Diane M. Nelson: Reckoning: The End of War in Guatemala, reviewed by Robert M. Carmack

Matthew J. Smith: Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957, reviewed by Mimi Sheller

LATINO & BORDER STUDIES

Melanie Shell-Weiss: Coming to Miami: A Social History, reviewed by Raymond A. Mohl

CULTURAL & LITERARY STUDIES

Esther Gabara: Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, reviewed by James Krippner

Anne M. Stock: On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition, reviewed by John King

Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos C. Jauregui: Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, reviewed by Fabrício Prado

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo: Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico, reviewed by Jorge Duany

Evan R. Ward: Packaged Vacations: Tourism Development in the Spanish Caribbean, reviewed by Dina Berger

NATION BUILDING & NATIONALISM

Severo Martínez Peláez: La Patria del criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala, reviewed by Douglass Sullivan-González

HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE & TECHNOLOGY

Daniela Bleichmar, Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine, and Kevin Sheehan: Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800, reviewed by Marshall C. Eakin

ATLANTIC WORLD

Alejandro de la Fuente: Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century, reviewed by Linda K. Salvucci

Jeremy Adelman: Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic, reviewed by Christon I. Archer

Jack P. Greene and Philip D. Morgan: Atlantic History: A Critical Reappraisal, reviewed by Mark D. Szuchman


 

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