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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.
Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values
Educating the New Socialist Citizen
University of Texas Press
This in-depth look at education in Cuba’s high schools and middle schools offers new insights into the links between school and society under Castro.
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
University of Texas Press
This examination of the use of ancestor myths in ancient Greece enriches the dialogue on how societies often use myth to construct political, social, and cultural identities and alliances.
Afro-Mexico
Dancing between Myth and Reality
By Anita Gonzalez; By (photographer) George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer; Introduction by Ben Vinson
University of Texas Press
This study of African-based dance in Mexico explores the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society, showing how dance can embody social histories and relationships.
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem
University of Texas Press
Three of the leading experts on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker offer a comprehensive overview of all that is currently known about its biology and natural history and about the ecology of the fire-maintained forests it requires for survival.
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture
University of Texas Press
Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals, and wonder.
The Jaguar and the Priest
An Ethnography of Tzeltal Souls
By Pedro Pitarch; Introduction by Roy Wagner
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico.
Spies and Holy Wars
The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction
University of Texas Press
From World War I to the twenty-first century, this is a watershed examination of British and American thrillers whose villains are jihadists rather than Cold War nemeses.
One Hundred Bottles
By Ena Lucía Portela; Translated by Achy Obejas
University of Texas Press
A literary murder mystery set in Havana, One Hundred Bottles is also a survivor’s story of very rough love, intense friendship, and creating family in the chaos that Cuba experienced during the 1990s.
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