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Bandits, Peasants, and Politics
The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia
University of Texas Press
A study of social banditry in Colombia during a near-civil war.
Women in Mexico
A Past Unveiled
By Julia Tuñón Pablos; Translated by Alan Hynds
University of Texas Press
This work examines the role of Mexican women from pre-Cortés to the 1980s.
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
By Norma Iglesias Prieto; Translated by Michael Stone and Gabrielle Winkler; Introduction by Henry A. Selby
University of Texas Press
Stories and testimonials about women who work in assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Play of Mirrors
The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
By Sylvia Caiuby Novaes; Translated by Izabel Murat Burbridge
University of Texas Press
Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction.
México Profundo
Reclaiming a Civilization
By Guillermo Bonfil Batalla; Translated by Philip A. Dennis
University of Texas Press
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.
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.
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