Abstract This article examines baptismal naming in sixteenth-century Guatemala in the context of Indigenous adaptation to the sociopolitical upheavals of Spanish-led invasion, forced resettlement, and the imposition of Catholicism. As part of the institution of baptism—the first Catholic sacrament and one that missionaries implemented soon after their arrival in the Spanish Americas—Indigenous baptizees received a European name, as well as spiritual kin in the form of godparents. The distribution of baptismal names in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Santiago Atitlán, a predominantly Tz'utujil Maya community in highland Guatemala, suggests that Indigenous christening marked a break with precolonial onomastic practice. Instead of continuing the Indigenous tradition of naming children according to their birthdate, Maya adults in the Santiago Atitlán area developed new naming strategies that simultaneously located their children in the Spanish administrative sphere and reconstituted local social networks in the wake of colonial disruptions. Furthermore, the influence of godparents on name selection both expressed and reinforced godparenthood's rising significance as the most socially salient Catholic institution in colonial Indigenous society and one that remains vibrant into the present.
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{"title":"Feminism and Afro-Cuban Women","authors":"Juan Francisco Martinez Peria","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"30 1","pages":"366 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81855568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VanYoung is ideally suited towrite this book. For the past four decades, he has been teaching, researching, and publishing on this transitional period. As a result, his writing is both accessible and complex. It includes one of the most straightforward and complex analyses of the intricate reasons behind the events that led to the creation of an independent Mexico that I have read. His explanation of these reasons as “ingredients” in a cooking recipe is a perfect illustration of his book’s combination of accessibility and complexity. In addition, his narrative includes occasional interjections in the form of comments, contextual explanations, and interconnections that, far from being a distraction to the flow of the story, make the story more fascinating. Furthermore, each chapter includes “boxes” of witness accounts of events central to the chapter’s topic, taken from primary sources and presenting a great addition to those interested in gaining a feeling of the times.
{"title":"Patriotic Mythologization and Mexico's War of Independence","authors":"T. Schaefer","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"VanYoung is ideally suited towrite this book. For the past four decades, he has been teaching, researching, and publishing on this transitional period. As a result, his writing is both accessible and complex. It includes one of the most straightforward and complex analyses of the intricate reasons behind the events that led to the creation of an independent Mexico that I have read. His explanation of these reasons as “ingredients” in a cooking recipe is a perfect illustration of his book’s combination of accessibility and complexity. In addition, his narrative includes occasional interjections in the form of comments, contextual explanations, and interconnections that, far from being a distraction to the flow of the story, make the story more fascinating. Furthermore, each chapter includes “boxes” of witness accounts of events central to the chapter’s topic, taken from primary sources and presenting a great addition to those interested in gaining a feeling of the times.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"13 1","pages":"358 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88424558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
emergence of the myth of Rodríguez as a libertine and an independence heroine (sometimes alternating and sometimes at the same time) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Arrom notes that the two parts of the book can be read independently of each other, and whereas the first part will especially appeal to social historians (such as myself), the second part will be of greatest interest to intellectual historians and scholars of nationalism.
{"title":"Mexican War of Reform","authors":"C. Andrews","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.13","url":null,"abstract":"emergence of the myth of Rodríguez as a libertine and an independence heroine (sometimes alternating and sometimes at the same time) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Arrom notes that the two parts of the book can be read independently of each other, and whereas the first part will especially appeal to social historians (such as myself), the second part will be of greatest interest to intellectual historians and scholars of nationalism.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"12 1","pages":"360 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78285032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TAM volume 80 issue 2 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"24 1","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76976857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article studies the mechanics of sales taxes in the viceroyalty of New Granada (present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and western Venezuela) during the second half of the eighteenth century. Advocating a careful examination of the accounting, institutional, and fiscal practices of North Andean customs houses, it provides an extensive discussion on how tax records can be harnessed to study the scope and nature of Bourbon reforms and to measure trade flows. The article pursues three interrelated goals. First, it studies the impact of local negotiations and jurisdictional fragmentation on local rates and revenue collection, providing new insights into the concrete mechanisms of tax bargaining. Second, the study reinterprets data on the main North Andean entrepôts of trade to measure fiscal cycles, real tax pressure, and tax incidence. Proposing a new method for examining customs records, this research shows how fiscal concessions and economic cycles led to diminishing fiscal revenues. Finally, the research places the viceroyalty within the broader context of fiscal change in the Spanish Empire, arguing that the region collected fewer revenues not only because of its comparatively smaller economic activity but also because the combination of custom and reform yielded lower taxation rates and unique fiscal structures.
{"title":"The Mechanics of the Alcabalas: Reform, Local Bargaining, and Dwindling Taxation in New Granada, 1750–1810","authors":"J. Torres","doi":"10.1017/tam.2022.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2022.98","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article studies the mechanics of sales taxes in the viceroyalty of New Granada (present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and western Venezuela) during the second half of the eighteenth century. Advocating a careful examination of the accounting, institutional, and fiscal practices of North Andean customs houses, it provides an extensive discussion on how tax records can be harnessed to study the scope and nature of Bourbon reforms and to measure trade flows. The article pursues three interrelated goals. First, it studies the impact of local negotiations and jurisdictional fragmentation on local rates and revenue collection, providing new insights into the concrete mechanisms of tax bargaining. Second, the study reinterprets data on the main North Andean entrepôts of trade to measure fiscal cycles, real tax pressure, and tax incidence. Proposing a new method for examining customs records, this research shows how fiscal concessions and economic cycles led to diminishing fiscal revenues. Finally, the research places the viceroyalty within the broader context of fiscal change in the Spanish Empire, arguing that the region collected fewer revenues not only because of its comparatively smaller economic activity but also because the combination of custom and reform yielded lower taxation rates and unique fiscal structures.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"75 1","pages":"221 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86302700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In February and March of 1812, Indigenous, mestizo, and creole rebels led an uprising in and around the colonial city of Huánuco in the viceroyalty of Peru. The diversity of the insurgent army reflected, to an extent, the vision of bilingual friars who, in the months preceding the uprising, had written, translated, and distributed pasquinades that called on residents to unite and drive out the Spanish. Although the insurgent army had two initial victories, Spanish authorities quickly put down the movement and began an investigation into the motives and leaders of the rebellion. Their interrogations led them to the subversive friars and the “papeles seductivos” (seductive papers) that these men of the cloth had been circulating. Using a collection of digitized documents from the uprising, which includes several examples of these seditious verses, this paper examines the significance of the Huánuco Rebellion in Peruvian and Latin American history. The rebellion demonstrates the potential of friars in their role as mediators of information to destabilize colonial relations. Additionally, the diverse army of insurgents complicates, at least to a degree, historians’ frequent characterization of Peru in the independence era as a bastion of royalism beset by ethnic tension.
{"title":"Papeles Seductivos: Friars, Intermediaries, and Organizers in the Huánuco Rebellion of 1812","authors":"Taylor Cozzens","doi":"10.1017/tam.2022.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2022.149","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In February and March of 1812, Indigenous, mestizo, and creole rebels led an uprising in and around the colonial city of Huánuco in the viceroyalty of Peru. The diversity of the insurgent army reflected, to an extent, the vision of bilingual friars who, in the months preceding the uprising, had written, translated, and distributed pasquinades that called on residents to unite and drive out the Spanish. Although the insurgent army had two initial victories, Spanish authorities quickly put down the movement and began an investigation into the motives and leaders of the rebellion. Their interrogations led them to the subversive friars and the “papeles seductivos” (seductive papers) that these men of the cloth had been circulating. Using a collection of digitized documents from the uprising, which includes several examples of these seditious verses, this paper examines the significance of the Huánuco Rebellion in Peruvian and Latin American history. The rebellion demonstrates the potential of friars in their role as mediators of information to destabilize colonial relations. Additionally, the diverse army of insurgents complicates, at least to a degree, historians’ frequent characterization of Peru in the independence era as a bastion of royalism beset by ethnic tension.","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"62 1","pages":"261 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78737237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/gia.2023.a897710
E. Manley
{"title":"Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century by Kaysha Corinealdi (review)","authors":"E. Manley","doi":"10.1353/gia.2023.a897710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gia.2023.a897710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"38 1","pages":"373 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73733082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1080/08905762.2022.2129908
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Published in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2022)
发表于《评论:美洲文学与艺术》(第55卷，第2期，2022年)
{"title":"From Mr. President","authors":"Miguel Ángel Asturias","doi":"10.1080/08905762.2022.2129908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2022.2129908","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2022)","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08905762.2023.2195296
Edgar Smith
{"title":"“Dominican Sushi In New York” and Other Poems","authors":"Edgar Smith","doi":"10.1080/08905762.2023.2195296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2023.2195296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51706,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS","volume":"56 1","pages":"70 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49620711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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