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Volume 73 - October 2016

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Rethinking Community from Peru: The Political Philosophy of José María Arguedas. By Irina Alexandra Feldman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 182. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 paper.

Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas History. Edited by Timothy Matovina and Jesús F. de la Teja, with the collaboration of Justin Poché. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. x, 190. Photos. Drawing. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 hardcover.

Religion/Religious Practices - Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity. Edited by Elizabeth Baquedano. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015. Pp. xi, 239. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Politics/Governance - For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010. By Edward Murphy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. 360. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. $27.95 paper.

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The Origin of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700–1763. By Adrian J. Pearce. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xiii, 264. Preface. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Religion/Religious Practices - The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies. By Molly H. Bassett. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2015. Pp. 300. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Index. $60.00 cloth.

The, Bishop's Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru. By Emily Berquist Soule. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 287. Acknowledgments. Appendixes. Archives Consulted. Notes. Index. Sources. $45.00 cloth.

Spiritual Currency in Northeast Brazil. By Lindsey King. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. 168. Introduction. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Searching for Madre Matiana: Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico. By Edward Wright-Rios. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. 408. Introduction. Conclusion. Appendix. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95.

Rural Social History - Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico. By Elizabeth Terese Newman. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 255. Acknowledgments. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index. $29.95 paper.

Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil. By Heather F. Roller. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 342. Acknowledgments. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00 cloth.

The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History. By Julia J. S. Sarreal. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 335. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Science, Medicine and Technology - Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History. By Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 306. $29.99 paper.

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