Special Issue: "Rethinking Bandeirismo Studies in Colonial Brazil"

Guest editor: A. J. R. Russell-Wood: Introduction: New Directions in Bandeirismo Studies in Colonial Brazil

Alida C. Metcalf: The Entradas of Bahia in the Sixteenth Century

Barbara A. Sommer: Colony of the Sertão: Amazonian Expeditions and the Slave Trade

Hal Langfur : The Return of the Bandeira: Economic Calamity, Historical Memory, and Armed Expeditions in the Sertão in Minas Gerais, 1750-1808

Mary Karasch: Rethinking the Conquest of Goiás, 1775-1819

Linda J. Seligmann: Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco, reviewed by Mary Weismantel

Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosenblatt, eds.: Race and Nation in Modern Latin America, reviewed by Vincent C. Peloso

Engel Sluiter: The Gold and Silver of Spanish America, reviewed by Kendall W. Brown

Montserrat Galí Boadella, ed.: El mundo de las catedrales novohispanas, reviewed by Magnus Lundberg

Stephanie Wood: Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

James Krippner-Martínez: Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics, and the History of Early Colonial Michoacán, Mexico, 1521-1565, reviewed by Rebecca Horn

Frank Graziano: Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima, reviewed by Martha Few

Ramón Mujica Pinilla: Rosa limensis: Mística, política e iconografía en torno a la patrona de América, reviewed by Adrian Pearce

Christon I. Archer, ed.: The Birth of Modern Mexico 1780-1824, reviewed by Edith Couturier

Sergio Serulnikov: Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes, reviewed by Kenneth J. Andrien

Richard Weiner: Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico, reviewed by William Schell

Osvaldo Barreneche: Dentro de la ley, todo. La justicia criminal de Buenos Aires en la etapa formativa del sistema penal moderno de la Argentina, reviewed by Carlos Aguirre

Charles L. Briggs with Clara Martini-Briggs: Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare, reviewed by Kjell Enge

Donna M. Goldstein: Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown, reviewed by Donna J. Guy

João José Reis: Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, reviewed by Pamela Voekel

Susana Salgado: The Teatro Solís: 150 Years of Opera, Concert, and Ballet in Montevideo, reviewed by Kristen McCleary

Diana Taylor: The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas, reviewed by Juan Poblete

Marta Elena Savigliano: Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation, reviewed by Barbara Browning

Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen, eds.: Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, reviewed by Matthew D. Esposito

Raymond Leslie Williams: The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel, reviewed by Gerald Martin

John Charles Chasteen: National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance, reviewed by Bryan McCann

Alma Guillermoprieto: Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution, reviewed by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff

Conrad James and John Perivolaris, eds.: The Cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean, reviewed by Marisela Fleites-Lear

Stephan Palmié: Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity & Tradition, reviewed by Lauren Derby

Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef (Florencia E. Mallon, ed.): When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist, reviewed by Margaret Power

Daniel M. Masterson and Sayaka Funada-Classen: The Japanese in Latin America, reviewed by Jeffrey Lesser

Eugenia Rodríguez Sáenz, ed.: Mujeres, género e historia en América Central durante los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX, reviewed by Ann Jefferson

Monique Nuijten: Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology of Organisation in Mexico, reviewed by Ariadna Acevedo Rodrigo

Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri, eds.: Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform, reviewed by Marc Becker

Steve Levitsky: Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America, reviewed by Katrina Burgess

J. Mark Payne, Daniel Zovatto G., Carrillo Flórez, and Andrés Allamand Zavala: Democracies in Development: Politics and Reform in Latin America, reviewed by Markos J. Mamalakis

Archibald R. M. Ritter, ed.: The Cuban Economy, reviewed by William M. LeoGrande

David Carrasco, ed.: Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, reviewed by Francie Chassen-López

Cindy Forster: The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala’s October Revolution, reviewed by Deborah Levenson

Beatriz Manz: Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope, reviewed by Julie A. Hastings

Elisabeth Jean Wood: Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador, reviewed by Jenny Pearce

Alan McPherson: Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations, reviewed by Michael R. Hall

Rosa Linda Fregoso: MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands, reviewed by Suzanne Bost

Rebeca Monroy Nasr: Historias para ver: Enrique Díaz, fotorreportero, reviewed by John Mraz

Documentary Films

Marie-Monique Robin, director: Death Squadrons: The French School, reviewed by J. Patrice McSherry

Paula Rodríguez, director: Pinochet’s Children – Volver a vernos, reviewed by Aurora Camacho de Schmidt

Tom Feiling, director: Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, reviewed by Eric Zolov

Jesus Treviño, director: América Tropical, reviewed by Mary K. Coffey

John Mraz, director: On the Case of Rosalie Evans, reviewed by Andrew Paxman