CONTENTS

William B. Taylor: 2008 CLAH Luncheon Address: Dos Palabras on Mexican Shrines and the Contagiousness of the Sacred

Brad Lange: Importing Freud and Lamarck to the Tropics: Arthur Ramos and the Transformation of Brazilian Racial Thought, 1926-1939

Caitlin A. Fitz: "A Stawart Motor of Revolutions ": An American Merchant in Pernambuco, 1817-1825

Karoline P. Cook: Navigating Identities: The Case of a Morisco Slave in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

Interview: Reminiscences of Mexico: A Conversation with Richard Greenleaf

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BOOK REVIEWS

Lessie Jo Frazier: Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present, reviewed by William E. Skuban

Cultural & Literary Studies

Rory M. Miller and Liz Crolley, eds.: Football in the Americas: Fútbol, Futebol, Soccer, reviewed by Brenda Elsey

Tamara L. Falicov: The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film, reviewed by Victoria Ruétalo

Environmental History

Shawn William Miller: An Environmental History of Latin America, reviewed by Myrna I. Santiago

Ethnohistory & Indigenous Politics

R. Alan Covey: How the Incas Built Their Heartland: State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru, reviewed by John W. Janusek

Vernon L. Scarborough and John E. Clark, eds.: The Political Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica: Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods, reviewed by Charles C. Kolb

Alain Breton; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan and Robert Schneider, eds.: Rabinal Achi: A Fifteenth-Century Maya Dynastic Drama, reviewed by Allen J. Christenson

Lynn Stephen: Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca, reviewed by Patrick McNamara

Latino & Border Studies

José R. López Morín: The Legacy of Américo Paredes, reviewed by Adán Benavides

Mass Media & Communications

Jeff D. Himpele: Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes, reviewed by Alan O’Connor

Military History

Allan J. Kuethe and Juan F. Marchena, eds.: Soldados del rey. El ejército borbónico en América en vísperas de la independencia, reviewed by Gary M. Miller

Nation Building & Nationalism

María Teresa Calderón and Clément Thibaud, eds.: Las revoluciones en el mundo atlántico, reviewed by Jordana Dym

Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp: So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico, reviewed by Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Laura Angélica Moya López: La nación como organismo: México, su evolución social, 1900-1902, reviewed by Alejandro Cortazar

Pablo Yankelevich, Celina Bonini, Jorge Cernadas, Damián López Martín, and Roberto Villarruel, eds.: Argentina en el siglo XIX, reviewed by Paula Alonso

Politics & Governance

George W. Grayson: Mexican Messiah: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, reviewed by Tina Hilgers

Religion & Religious Practices

John F. Schwaller, ed.: Francis in the Americas: Essays on the Franciscan Family in North and South America, reviewed by James Schofield Saeger

Rural Social History

Juan Carlos Ruiz Guadalajara: Dolores antes de la independencia: Microhistoria del altar de la patria, vols. I & II, reviewed by Eric Van Young

Slavery & Diaspora Studies

Joan Cameron Bristol: Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century, reviewed by Frank “Trey” Proctor III

Urban Social History

Manuel Lucena Giraldo: A los cuatro vientos: Las ciudades de la América Hispánica, reviewed by Alejandra B. Osorio

U.S. & International Relations

Christopher M. White: Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era, reviewed by Mark T. Gilderhus