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The Siren and the Seashell
And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry
University of Texas Press
A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.
Urban Latin America
The Political Condition from Above and Below
By Alejandro Portes and John Walton
University of Texas Press
This book is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem.
Under the Rainbow
Nature and Supernature among the Panare Indians
University of Texas Press
This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia.
The Yanoama Indians
A Cultural Geography
University of Texas Press
This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.
Fields of the Tzotzil
The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas
University of Texas Press
The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.
Dramatists in Revolt
The New Latin American Theater
Edited by Leon F. Lyday and George W. Woodyard
University of Texas Press
Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.
The Spanish American Novel
A Twentieth-Century Survey
University of Texas Press
John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.
A Mexican Family Empire
The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867
University of Texas Press
A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America—the latifundio of the Sánchez Navarros.
Psychology of the Mexican
Culture and Personality
University of Texas Press
In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology.
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