Description: Relations between Blacks and Indigenous people in Colonial Mexico as seen through a study of witchcraft accusations in inquisition records.
Review Quotes: "Here is a fine example of well-researched, 'thick' ethnographic description at the service of a fuller understanding of 'caste as a system of values, practices, and meanings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico.' Hall of Mirrors offers memorable cases from Inquisition files nestled in an unusually probing and synoptic analysis."--William Taylor, author of Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico