exchange within Mexican Catholicism. While the book is punctuated with enticing references to material practices from medieval Europe and the ancient Mediterranean world, greater elaboration is needed on the role indigenous Mexican cultures have played—and continue to play—in shaping the logic of reciprocal exchange that animates petitionary devotion. This is but a small concern, however, for a text that demonstrates such an impressive command of the multiple material, psychological, and cultural dimensions of votive exchange.

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手势与力量：刚果的宗教，民族主义与日常表演。Yolanda Covington-Ward着。非洲和侨民宗教文化丛书。达勒姆，北卡罗来纳州：杜克大学出版社，2016年。xii + 287页，每本$ 39.95布；29.95美元的纸张。

墨西哥天主教内部的交流。尽管本书的内容引人入胜，引人注​​目地提及了中世纪欧洲和古代地中海世界的物质实践，但仍需要进一步阐述墨西哥土著文化在塑造并继续发挥作用，从而推动相互奉献的逻辑上所起的作用，并将继续发挥作用。然而，对于文本而言，显示出对信奉交换的多种物质，心理和文化方面的如此深刻的命令，这只是一个小问题。