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The Siren and the Seashell

And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

By Octavio Paz; Translated by Lysander Kemp and Margaret Sayers Peden; Illustrated by Barry Moser
University of Texas Press

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

By Horacio Quiroga; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; Introduction by George D. Schade
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.

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Urban Latin America

The Political Condition from Above and Below

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.

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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.

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The Yanoama Indians

A Cultural Geography

University of Texas Press

This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.

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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.

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Dramatists in Revolt

The New Latin American Theater

University of Texas Press

Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.

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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.

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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.

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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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