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Metaphysical Community
The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect
By Greg Urban
University of Texas Press
A South American tribe's culture is the starting point for this exploration of the uneasy tension that binds experience and understanding, phenomena and noumena.
Electronic Eros
Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age
University of Texas Press
How futuristic techno-erotic imagery in popular culture actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality.
Andean Lives
Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
Edited by Ricardo Valderrama Fernández and Carmen Escalante Gutiérrez; Translated by Paul H. Gelles and Gabriela Martínez Escobar; Introduction by Paul H. Gelles; By (photographer) Eulogio Nishiyama
University of Texas Press
The life stories of two Peruvian indigenous people.
Texian Iliad
A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
By Stephen L. Hardin; Illustrated by Gary S. Zaboly
University of Texas Press
The first complete military history of the Texas Revolution, drawing on many original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield.
Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls
Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
By Tom Holm
University of Texas Press
The experiences of Native American veterans in Vietnam and readjusting to civilian life.
Science in the Medieval World
Book of the Categories of Nations
By Sa`id al-Andalusi; Translated by Alok Kumar
University of Texas Press
A medieval Spanish Muslim manuscript describing the contributions of nine nations to human knowledge.
Native American Mathematics
Edited by Michael P. Closs
University of Texas Press
Spanning time from the prehistoric to the present, the thirteen essays in this volume attest to the variety of mathematical development present in the Americas.
Latino High School Graduation
Defying the Odds
University of Texas Press
The obstacles that cause Latino/a students to drop out of high school, and strategies to overcome them.
Indians into Mexicans
History and Identity in a Mexican Town
By David Frye
University of Texas Press
How the people of Mexquitic redefined their identity from "Indian" to "Mexican" over the last two centuries.
Guatemalan Journey
University of Texas Press
In this vividly written travel narrative, Stephen Connely Benz explores the Guatemala that casual travelers miss.
Cinema and Painting
How Art Is Used in Film
University of Texas Press
How the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition
Interpreting Environments
Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography.
Complete Works and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.
Weaving Identities
Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town
University of Texas Press
Carol Hendrickson presents an ethnography of clothing focused on the traje—particularly women’s traje—of Tecpán, Guatemala, a bi-ethnic community in the central highlands.
The Roman Goddess Ceres
University of Texas Press
In this thematic study of the Roman goddess Ceres, Barbette Spaeth explores the rich complexity of meanings and functions that grew up around the goddess from the prehistoric period to the Late Roman Empire.
The Natural History of the Traditional Quilt
University of Texas Press
An examination of the taxonomy, morphology, behavior, and ecology of quilts in their native environment—the homes of humans who make, use, keep, and bestow them.
Rereading the Spanish American Essay
Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays
Edited by Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press
This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferré, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.
Defending the Land of the Jaguar
A History of Conservation in Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first panoramic history of conservation in Mexico from pre-contact times to the current Mexican environmental movement.
The Alamo Remembered
Tejano Accounts and Perspectives
University of Texas Press
A collection of all known Tejano accounts of the Battle of the Alamo.
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