The 2005 CLAH Luncheon Address:

Rebecca Earle: Letters and Love in Colonial Spanish America

Susan Ramírez: Amores Prohibidos: The Consequences of the Clash of Juridical Norms in Sixteenth-Century Peru

Matthew Esposito: The Politics of Death: State Funerals as Rites of Reconciliation in Porfirian Mexico, 1876-1889

Arlene J. Diaz: Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904, reviewed by Ann Twinam

Guilhem Olivier (translated by Michel Besson): Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, “Lord of the Smoking Mirror”, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Osvaldo F. Pardo: The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, reviewed by Louise M. Burkhart

Barbara Ganson: The Guaraní Under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata, reviewed by John E. Kicza

Philip A. Dennis: The Miskitu People of Awastara, reviewed by David M. Stemper

Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Romana Falcón and Raymond Buve, eds.: Pueblos, comunidades y municipios frente a los proyectos modernizadores en América Latina, siglo XIX, reviewed by Michael T. Ducey

Enrique Florescano and Virginia García Acosta, eds.: Mestizajes tecnológicos y cambios culturales en México, reviewed by Aaron P. Althouse

Katrin S. Flechsig: Miniature Crafts and Their Makers: Palm Weaving in a Mexican Town, reviewed by Walter E. Little

Paul J. Vanderwood: Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint, reviewed by Amy Robinson

Patricia R. Pessar: From Fanatics to Folk: Millenarianism and Popular Culture, reviewed by Todd Diacon

Andrés Reséndez: Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850, reviewed by Elliott Young

Lou Charnon-Deutsch: The Spanish Gypsy: The History of a European Obsession, reviewed by Inés Arribas

Ilona Katzew: Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, reviewed by Matthew Restall

Edna M. Rodríguez-Mangual: Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Identity, reviewed by Lorraine Elena Roses

Steven Palmer and Iván Molina, eds.: The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics, reviewed by Aviva Chomsky

Virginia Mora Carvajal: Rompiendo mitos y forjando historia: Mujeres urbanas y relaciones de g énero en Costa Rica a inicios del siglo XX, reviewed by Rina Villars

Peter M. Beattie, ed.: The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil, reviewed by Barbara A. Sommer

Lyman L. Johnson, ed.: Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America, reviewed by Barbara Tenenbaum

Stafford Poole: Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II, reviewed by Rick Goulet

Timothy Hawkins: José de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis, reviewed by Stephen Webre

Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor, eds.: A New Economic History of Argentina, reviewed by Colin M. Lewis

Lesley Gill: The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, reviewed by Alan McPherson

Luz Arce: The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile, reviewed by Margaret Power

Diego Armus: Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS, reviewed by Steven Palmer

Bernardo García Martínez and María del Rosario Prieto, eds.: Estudios sobre historia y ambiente en America. II: Norteamérica, Sudamérica y el Pacífico, reviewed by Myrna Santiago

Torcuato S. Di Tella: History of Political Parties in Twentieth-Century Latin America, reviewed by Ariel C. Armony

David A. Shirk: Mexico’s New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change, reviewed by Chappell Lawson

Charles D. Kenney: Fujimori's Coup and the Breakdown of Democracy in Latin America, reviewed by Gregory D. Schmidt

Alfred P. Montero and David J. Samuels, eds.: Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America, reviewed by Tulia G. Falleti

M. C. Mirow: Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America, reviewed by Ricardo D. Salvatore

Documentary Film Reviews

Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez, director: The Passion of María Elena, reviewed by Jocelyn Olcott

Joseph Tovares, director: Remember the Alamo, reviewed by Linda K. Salvucci