Volume 31, Number 12 · July 19, 1984
Mastering the Signs
By J.H. Elliott
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Richard Howard
Harper and Row, 274 pp., $17.95
Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism
by Geoffrey W. Conrad, by Arthur A. Demarest
Cambridge University Press, 272 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Nineteen ninety-two will soon be upon us. Already the committees are being assembled, the foundations being approached, the first tentative projects discussed. Some will propose the construction of monuments; others, the publication of documents; and everyone will propose a conference. But do we need more monuments, or more documents? Do we even need more conferences? What is it, after all, we are celebrating?
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