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Volume 78 - October 2021

Obituary

In Memoriam: Stanley Stein, 1920–2019

Book Review

Mesoamerican Cosmologies - Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies. Edited by Ana Díaz. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020. Pp. 350. $109.00 cloth; $42.95 paper.

Mesoamerican and Andean Communication Systems - Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems: A Theoretical Approach. Edited by Katarzyna Mikulska and Jerome A. Offner. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. Pp. 400. $93.00 cloth; $74.00 e-book.

Maya Religion, 1500s - Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico, K'iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum. By Garry G. Sparks. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020. Pp. 444. $99.00 cloth.

Maya Yucatan - Return to Ixil: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town. By Mark Z. Christensen and Matthew Restall. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. Pp. 316. $76.00 cloth.

Jesuits - Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America. Edited by Linda A. Newson. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2020. Pp. 291. $32.00 paper; $26.00 e-book; free pdf.

Normative Languages in Colonial America - Knowledge of the Pragmatici: Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America. Edited by Thomas Duve and Otto Danwerth. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 382. $113.00 cloth.

Conquest and Colonization - Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America. Edited by Jenny Mander, David Midgley, and Christine D. Beaule. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. xvi, 312. Illustrations. Index. $160.00 cloth; $48.95 e-book.

Conquest of Guatemala - Fear in the Land: Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520–1541. By W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, and Wendy Kramer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 174. $32.95 cloth.

Sixteenth-Century Family Ties - Transatlantic Obligations: Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain. By Jane E. Mangan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 272. $135.00 cloth; $37.95 paper.

Maya and Tobacco - Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use among the Maya. Edited by Jennifer A. Loughmiller-Cardinal and Keith Eppich. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 280. $75.00 cloth.

Female Slaveholders - Jamaica Ladies, Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire. By Christine Walker. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $22.95 paper.

Questioning Paradigms of Conquest and Discovery - The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World. By Ralph Bauer. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. 670. 48 black and white illustrations. $79.50 cloth; $39.50 paper.

Dutch Expedition in Chile - To the Shores of Chile: The Journal and History of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643. Edited by Mark Meuwese. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. Pp. 114. $26.95 paper.

Indigenous Maps in Colonial Mexico - Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico. By Alex Hidalgo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 200, $29.95 paper.

Masculinity in Colonial Mexico - The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico. By Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Dutch Trade in Río de la Plata - A Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678. By David Freeman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 222. Maps. Notes. Index. $99.99 cloth; $80.00 e-book.

Brazilian Abolition - The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro. By Jeffrey D. Needell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 361. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 cloth.

Sixteenth-Century New Spain - The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain. By Lori Boornazin Diel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. Pp. 240. $55.00 cloth.

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