Books in Brief

The editorial office has received a number of volumes that will be of interest to our readership, resulting in a considerable backlog. Thus we offer this extended Books in Brief section in the July 2016 issue, with the goal of bringing these recent publications to the attention of our colleagues.

The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. By Bridget María Chesterton. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015. Pp. 209. List of illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $112.00 cloth; $79.99 PDF ebook.

Introduction: An Overview of the Chaco War

Chapter 1: “Same as Here, Same as Everywhere”: Social Difference among Bolivian Prisoners in Paraguay

Chapter 2: Union Activism in La Paz Before and After the Chaco War, 1920–1947

Chapter 3: Channeling Modernity: Nature, Patriotic Engineering, and the Chaco War

Chapter 4: Paraguay Guazú: Big Paraguay, Carlos Fiebrig, and the Botanical Garden as a Launching Point for Paraguayan Nationalism

Chapter 5: Indigenous Peoples and the Chaco War: Power and Acquiescence in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina

Chapter 6: Energy and Environment in the Chaco War

Chapter 7: Bolivian Oil Nationalism and the Chaco War

Chapter 8: Engraving Conflict: The Chaco War in a Shell Case

Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes. By Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. 311. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Part I. Indigenous Functionaries: Ethnicity, Networks, and Institutions

Chapter 1: Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities

Chapter 2: The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixlilxochitl and Bartolomé de Alva: Two “Native” Intellectuals of Seventeenth-Century Mexico

Chapter 3: Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru

Chapter 4: Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca

Part II. Native Historians: Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship

Chapter 5: Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History

Chapter 6: The Concept of the Nahua Historian: Don Juan Zapata's Scholarly Tradition

Chapter 7: Cristobal Choquecasa and the Making of the Huarochirí Manuscript

Part III. Forms of Knowledge: Genealogies, Maps, and Archives

Chapter 8: Indigenous Genealogies: Lineage, History, and the Colonial Pact in Central Mexico and Peru

Chapter 9: The Dawning Places: Celestially Defined Land Maps, Títulos Primordiales, and Indigenous Statements of Territorial Possession in Early Colonial Mexico

Chapter 10: Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcaycamayoq in Colonial Cuzco

Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500–1900. Edited by Hal Langfur. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. Pp. 277. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $29.95 paper.

Introduction: Recovering Brazil's Indigenous Pasts

Chapter 1: The Society of Jesus and the First Aldeias of Brazil

Chapter 2: Land and Economic Resources of Indigenous Aldeias in Rio de Janeiro: Conflicts and Negotiations, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 3: Colonial Intrusions and the Transformation of Native Society in the Amazon Valley, 1500–1800

Chapter 4: The Amazonian Native Nobility in Late-Colonial Pará

Chapter 5: Indian Autonomy and Slavery in the Forests and Towns of Colonial Minas Gerais

Chapter 6: Catechism and Capitalism: Imperial Indigenous Policy on a Brazilian Frontier, 1808–1845

Chapter 7: Catechism and Captivity: Indian Policy in Goias, 1780–1889

Chapter 8: Indigenous Resistance in Central Brazil, 1770–1890

Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico. By Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci [1746]. Translated and edited by Stafford Poole. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Pp. 281. List of illustrations. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $27.00 cloth. Contents

Introduction

Some Principles of Translation

Select Glossary of Spanish Terms Translated in This Book

Idea of a New General History of North America, Based on Copious Material of Figures, Symbols, Characters, and Hieroglyphics, Songs, and Manuscripts of Indian Authors, Recently Discovered

Dedication to the King

Evaluation of the Most Reverend Father, Master Pedro Fresneda

License of the Ordinary

Declaration of Doctor Don Joseph Borrull

Permission of the Royal Council of the Indies

Approbation of the Most Reverend Father Fray Juan de la Concepción

Permission of the Royal Council of Castile

Official Price

Invocation of the Muses

Sonetto and Epigramma

Index of the Sections

Preliminary Disclaimer

Prologue for the Reader

1. The Excellence of the History of New Spain

2. Procedure in Writing This History

3. First Age

4. Second Age

5. Divine Heroic Symbols of the Planets

6. Divine Heroic Symbols of the Days of the Year

7. The Days Are the Following

8. Divine Heroic Symbols of the Months

9. Symbols of the Indian Months, According to Gemelli Careri

11. Divine Heroic Nocturnal Symbols of the Year

12. Other Examples of Transformations as Means of Reward and Punishment

13. Heroic Military Symbols

14. Heroic Political Symbols

15. Of the Knots and Songs, Both Historical and Poetic

16. Origin of the Indians of New Spain

17. On the Passage and Crossing That the Indians of New Spain Took to Arrive There

18. Giants

Division of the Kingdoms of New Spain

19. The Olmec and Xicalanco Indians

20. The Toltec Indians

21. Third Age

2. The Chichimeca Indians

23. The Tepanec Indians

24. The Mexican Indians

25. The Teochichimeca Indians

26. Conquest by the Spaniards

27. Observations on What Has Been Said

28. The Usefulness That This Work Can Produce

Catalog of the Historic Indian Museum of the Knight Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Lord of la Torre and Hono

Preliminary Statement

Index of the Sections

Toltec History

Chichimeca History

Tepanec History

Mexican History

Tlatelolco History

Various Histories

History of Michoacan

Matlaltzinca History

History of Huejotzinco

History of Tlaxcala

Various Other Historical Sources

Pictorial Documents of Tribute

Manuscripts of Tribute

Rare Books

Other Various Learned Manuscripts

Christian Doctrine in Figures and Ciphers

Printed Books in the Nahuatl Language

Indian Calendars

History of the Conquest

Ecclesiastical History

History of Guadalupe

Observations

Bibliography

Index

Festivals & Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America, 1492–1850. Edited by Donna Pierce. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. 151. Foreword. Introduction. Maps. $34.95 paper.

Indigenous Dances in Early Colonial Mexico City

Barbara Mundy

Mourning Rites, Processions, and Funerary Monument

Gustavo Curiel

Between Monarchic and Local Identity

Beatriz Berndt

Celebrating the Patriarch(s) of Puebla

Frances Ramos

La corte vestida de gala

Transforming Status

Women's Fashion in Colonial Buenos Aires

Susan Socolow

Colonial Images

Alexandra Troya-Kennedy

Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies. Edited by John Abromeit, Bridget María Chesterton, Gary Marotta, and York Norman. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016. Pp. 345. List of Contributors. Introduction. Index. $120.00 cloth; $85.99 PDF ebook.

Part One: New Historical Perspectives on Populism

Section I: Right Wing Populism and the Rise of National Socialism in Germany

1. The Role of “The People” and Rise of the Nazis

2. Conservatives–Radical Nationalists–Fascists: Calling the People into Politics, 1890–1930

3. Germany's Conservative Elites and the Problem of Political Mobilization in the Weimar Republic

Section II: Populism in the Balkans from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

4. Nationalism and Populism in the Balkans: The Case of Croatia

5. The People as a “Happening”: Constellations of Populism in Serbia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

6. Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration and Populism in Bosnia

Section III: Transformation of Populism in the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

7. Richard Hofstadter's Populist Problem and His Identity as a Jewish Intellectual

8. The American Populist and Anti-Populist Legacy

9. Populist Movements in US History: Progressive and Reactionary

Section IV: Populism in Latin America and The Caribbean, 1920–60

10. Populism in the Circum-Caribbean, 1920s-50s

11. Populist Discourses, Developmentalist Policies: Rethinking Mid Twentieth-Century Brazilian Politics

12. Populism as an Identity: Four Propositions on Peronism

13. Performing Populism in Paraguay: Febrerismo on Stage in the Works of Correa and Ruffinelli, 1933–43

Part Two: Historical Theories of Populism

14. Transformations of Producerist Populism in Western Europe

15. Populists and Parasites: On Producerist Reason

Part Three: Recent Tendencies in Populist Movements in Latin America, Europe, and the United States

16. Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe Today

17. Ideologies of Economic Populism in America and Their Subversion by the Right

18. The Contested Meanings of Populist Revolutions in Latin America

Index

Bridges to Cuba, Puentes a Cuba: Cuban and Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Scholars Explore Identity, Nationality, and Homeland. Edited by Ruth Behar. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. 421. Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition. Introduction to the original edition. $35.00 paper.

Part 1: Reconciliation/Reconciliación

For Ana Veldford

Prayer to Lourdes

Beyond the Rupture: Reconciling with Our Enemies, Reconciling with Ourselves

Miembros fantasmas

Political and Cultural Cross-Dressing: Negotiating a Second Generation Cuban-American Identity

Silhouette

A House on Shifting Sands

From El libro regalado

Finding What Had Been Lost in Plain View

Nothing Lost Will Come Back with The Rain

Repairing Things

“And There is Only My Imagination Where Our History Should Be”: An Interview with Cristina Garcia

Bridges of the Heart

Ana Mendieta; Before a Mirror: A Chronicle That Swoons before the Immigrant Tree

Two Conversations with Nancy Morejón

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Fragments from Cuban Narratives

Part 2: Rupture/Ruptura

The Circle of Connections: One Hundred Years of Cuba-US Relations

Epistle to José Luis Ferrer

From My Name

Cubans Inside and Outside: Dialogue among the Deaf

Dangers of Speaking and Staying Quiet: Language of Silence

El diario de Miranda/Miranda's Diary

Third Options: Beyond the Border

My Key

Grandmother's Night

Soil; After Papa. . .

Contradictions, Pluralism, and Dialogue: An Interview with René Vásquez Díaz

God Doesn't Help Us

Strange Planet

As If in a Game

Performative Identities: Scenes between Two Cubas

Radishes

A Connecticut Yankee in Cuban Miami: Reflections on The Meaning of Underdevelopment and Cultural Change

Landscapes of the Mind

Sunday

Elisa, or The Price of Dreams

Poem for the Woman Who Talks to Herself in the Park

The Wall

Recent Cuban Art: A Portfolio

Part 3: Remembering/Recuerdos

Between Nightfall and Vengeance: Remembering Reinaldo Arenas

Lunch

Vigia: The Endless Publications of Matanzas

Three Mambos and a Son Montuno

From Going Under: A Cuban-American Fable

“Fronterislena,” Border Islander

Cubans and Airports

Knots in the Handkerchief

In the Way of Fortune

Sea's Path

Pilgrims of the Dawn

Carnaval

Pilgrimage to France: The Cuban Painters

Moving

My Life with Fidel Castro: A Soap Opera without Transmitter

The Islands; Letter to a Woman Friend

El Fuego

Queer Times in Cuba

Two Figures on a Bridge

Authors

Artists

The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. 408. Note on translation. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Suggestions. Index. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Section 1: Colonial Rio

The Early Colonial Period, 1502–1720s

A Navigator's Diary

On “Brazilian Savages”

Channeling the Carioca River

The Cachaça Revolt

French Corsairs Attack

Mapping the City's Defenses

The Wages of Indigenous Labor

The Viceregal Period, 1763–1808

The Customary Rights of Market Women

Valongo, a Notorious Slave Market

Fire and Reconstruction of an Asylum for Women

Whaling in Guanabara Bay

Lettered Men under Investigation

Cultivating Cinnamon in Late Colonial Rio

The Transfer of the Portuguese Court, 1808–1820s

Eagerly Awaiting the Royal Family

“Infectious Disorders” of the Port

The Passieo Publico

Section 2: Imperial Rio

The Independence Era, 1820s-1830s

The Feast of the Holy Spirit

The Emperor Dissolves the Constitutional Assembly

Views of the Palace Square

The Night of the Bottle-Whippings

Mapping the Capital of Imperial Brazil

The Slave Dance Called Candomblé

A Neutral Municipality, 1834–1889

From the Dungeon to the House of Correction

Photography Arrives in Rio

Transient Laborers of the Fazenda Santa Cruz

Recollections of Nineteenth-Century Women

Workers, for Sale or Rent

Maria Angola Denounces Illegal Enslavement

The Capoeira Gangs of Rio

French-Language Classifieds

Public Entertainment in Imperial Rio

Sex Trafficking in the Imperial Capital

Visualizing “A Carioca”

A City Celebrates Slave Emancipation

Section 3: Republican Rio

The Federal District 1889–1930

Making the Federal District

The Legendary Festival of Our Lady of Penha

The Animal Game

An Allegation of Infanticide

The Hotel Avenida

Rio's Kiosks

The Cult of Nostalgia

Anarchists under Arrest

Demolition of the Morro do Castelo

The Federal District, 1930–1960

Gauchos Take the Obelisk

“Flying Down to Rio”

Bertha Lutz Goes to Congress

The Fount of the Queen

A Writer's Brazilian Diary

Rio and World War II

A Fond Farewell to Praça Onze

Avenida Presidente Vargas

Introducing the “Civilized Indian”

Madame Sata, a Grifter in Lapa

A City's Crushing Defeat at the World Cup

Carmen Miranda Shines in “Ca Room' Pa Pa”

“Soldiers of Fire”

Censoring Rio

The Diplomacy of Samba

Section IV: Recent Rio

The City and State of Guanabara, 1960–1975

The Ephemeral State of Guanabara

Recreation in the Parque do Flamengo

This House is Yours!

An Act of Student Protest

After the Fusion, 1975–1980s

Dancin' Days

Burger Wars of 1979

Barra da Tijuca, Boomtown (But Not for All)

State Terror in the Early 1980s

The Consumer Spectacle of Barra Shopping

A Weekend at Maracanã

The Spider Woman Kisses Rio

Rallying for Direct Elections

A Summer up in Smoke

Contemporary Rio, 1990s-2015

Female Planet

From Favela to Bairro

Adeus, 2-2-6!

In Praise of a Modernist Monument

Venerating Escrava Anastacia

Campaigning for a “Rio without Homophobia”

The Last Night at Help

(Re)Constructing Black Consciousness

A Quilombo in Lagoa

An Oral History of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Whatever Your Fantasia, Always Use a Condom

“Pacification”

An Open Letter from a Massacre Survivor

Reading and Writing the Suburbs

A Century of Change at the port

Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing