This essay reviews the following works:
Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World. Edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 276. 55.00cloth.ISBN:9781607814160.StrangeLandsandDifferentPeoples:SpaniardsandIndiansinColonialGuatemala.ByW.GeorgeLovell,ChristopherH.Lutz,withWendyKramerandWilliamR.Swezey.Norman:UniversityofOklahomaPress,2013.Pp.ix+339.34.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780806143903.
Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810. By Robert W. Patch. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 284. 36.95cloth.ISBN:9780806144009.TheMixtecsofOaxaca:AncientTimestothePresent.ByRonaldSporesandAndrewK.Balkansky.Norman:UniversityofOklahomaPress,2013.Pp.xvi+328.45.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780806143811.
Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 257. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780826354624