Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico. By Laura A. Lewis (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003 xiv plus 262 pp. $79.95 cloth/$22.95 paper).
This thought-provoking book reveals the links between discourses of caste and witchcraft in colonial Mexico, focusing on the seventeenth century. Lewis, a cultural anthropologist, argues that the colonial world was divided into two related domains: the sanctioned domain of the colonial caste system, dominated by ...