The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World

This essay reviews the following works: The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World. By Ralph Bauer. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. 670. $79.50 hardcover. ISBN: 9780813942544. On the Lips of Others: Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals. By Patrick Thomas Hajovsky. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 194. $45.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781477307243. Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art. By Maarten Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. ix + 615. $182.54 hardcover. ISBN: 9789004340510. En busca del alma nacional: La arqueologia y la construccion del origen de la historia nacional en Mexico (1867-1942). By Haydee Lopez Hernandez. Ciudad de Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 2018. Pp. 389. $44.99. paperback. ISBN: 9786075391120. The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region. Edited by Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017. Pp. iii + 309. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780816533527. In the Lands of Fire and Sun: Resistance and Accommodation in the Huichol Sierra, 1723-1930. By Michele McArdle Stephens. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 177. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780803288584. Genero, ciencia y politica: Voces, vidas y miradas de la arqueologia mexicana. By Apen Ruiz Martinez. Ciudad de Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 2016. Pp. 251. Paperback. ISBN: 9786074847970. The Fifteenth Month: Aztec History in the Rituals of Panquetzaliztli. By John F. Schwaller. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 264. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780806162768.