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Egyptian Mummies
University of Texas Press
Richly illustrated with the most superb examples of ancient funerary art found in the British Museum, Egyptian Mummies offers an illuminating account of the beliefs and rituals surrounding mummies, life, death, and the afterlife in ancient Egypt.
Don’t Make Me Go to Town
Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
University of Texas Press
Beautifully illustrated with rich black-and-white photographs of ranchwomen at work, Don’t Make Me Go to Town is a remarkable record of women of strength and determination who are striving to preserve an increasingly rare way of life.
Before the Echo
Essays on Nature
By Pete Dunne; Illustrated by Diana Marlinski
University of Texas Press
In these twenty-nine essays, one of America’s top nature writers trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the natural world.
Visualizing the Sacred
Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World
University of Texas Press
Advancing the study of prehistoric Mississippian art that began in Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms, this volume presents a groundbreaking examination of regional variations in the shared iconography of indigenous cultures in the southeastern United States.
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers
Redefining Feminism on Screen
University of Texas Press
Continuing the celebration of female unruliness she began in The Unruly Woman, Karlyn explores how representations of mothers and daughters in popular films and television shows both reflect and contribute to current debates within and about feminism.
The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala
Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico
By Jaime Cuadriello; Translated by Christopher J. Follett
University of Texas Press
Starting with the iconography of a parish church, this extensively contextualized study examines eighteenth-century art, society, religion, and history to offer a new social history of art in colonial Mexico.
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?
Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos
By Chiara Francesca Ferrari; Introduction by Joseph Straubhaar
University of Texas Press
This colorful examination of “translated” television characters in Italy looks at the implications for transnational intersections of commerce and culture.
Sacred Modern
Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection
University of Texas Press
This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collection—the first such study of a major art museum—explores how the Collection embodies its founders’ desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils’ legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyon
Film in the Middle East and North Africa
Creative Dissidence
Edited by Josef Gugler
University of Texas Press
A timely window on the world of Middle Eastern cinema, this remarkable overview includes many essays that provide the first scholarly analysis of significant works by key filmmakers in the region.
Drug Games
The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008
By Thomas M. Hunt; Introduction by John Hoberman
University of Texas Press
Based on research in both American and foreign archives, this first book-length study of doping in the Olympics connects the use and regulation of performance-enhancing drugs to developments in the larger global environment.
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