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Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna
By Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, and Valerio Núñez; Edited by Hans Roeder; Translated by Elisabeth King; Introduction by James Howe
University of Texas Press
Plants, animals, and their place in the culture of an indigenous people of Panama.
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico
From the Aztecs to Independence
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history.
Contemporary Short Stories from Central America
Edited by Enrique Jaramillo Levi and Leland H. Chambers
University of Texas Press
This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
History and Society in Central America
By Edelberto Torres Rivas; Translated by Douglass Sullivan-González; Introduction by VIctor Bulmer-Thomas
University of Texas Press
The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s.
In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution
Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989
University of Texas Press
The first history of 20th-century post-revolutionary Mexico.
Transforming Modernity
Popular Culture in Mexico
By Néstor García Canclini; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press
An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them?
The History of Capitalism in Mexico
Its Origins, 1521–1763
By Enrique Semo; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press
This book argues that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development.
The Colonization of the Amazon
University of Texas Press
This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for
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