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Moon and Henna Tree
By Ahmed Toufiq; Translated by Roger Allen
University of Texas Press
Morocco’s Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments explores the abuse of power and its effects in this award-winning novel that opens a fascinating window into Amazigh (Berber) culture.
Living with Oil
Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast
University of Texas Press
This insightful study examines Mexico’s oil crisis and the communities affected by the decline of Cantarell, the nation’s aging supergiant offshore oilfield
Living with Lupus
Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador
By Ann Miles
University of Texas Press
Enriched with ethnographic stories of Ecuadorian women who struggle with the autoimmune disorder, lupus erythematosus, this book is one of the first to explore the meanings and experiences of medically managed chronic illness in the developing world.
Independence in Latin America
Contrasts and Comparisons
University of Texas Press
Extensively revised to incorporate the latest interpretations and address issues of race and gender as well as of economic interest, this is the only book that in such a short space covers the causes, events, and consequences of the wars of independence (1810–1825) in all of Latin America.
Dancing the New World
Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest
University of Texas Press
Analyzing the extensive accounts of Aztec dance practices in colonial-era European chronicles, histories, letters, and travel books, this volume reveals the surprising and crucial role that dance played in the European conquest and colonization of the Ame
Anay's Will to Learn
A Woman's Education in the Shadow of the Maquiladoras
University of Texas Press
This ethnographic case study provides a personal view of a maquiladora worker’s struggles with factory labor conditions, poverty, and violence as she journeys toward education, financial opportunity, and, ultimately, empowerment.
James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority
By Richard Fine
University of Texas Press
The history of a short-lived professional writers' organization.
A Favored Place
San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present
University of Texas Press
A history of land use in a wetland environment in Mexico.
The American Jewish Story through Cinema
University of Texas Press
By analyzing select mainstream films from the beginning of the sound era until today, this groundbreaking study uses the medium of cinema to provide an understanding of the American Jewish experience over the last century.
Mojo Hand
The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
University of Texas Press
Through vivid oral histories backed by extensive research, Mojo Hand tells the story of one of America’s greatest bluesmen, whose deeply authentic songs and unique style of guitar playing indelibly shaped modern roots, blues, rock ’n’ roll, singer-songwri
Dreaming in Russian
The Cuban Soviet Imaginary
University of Texas Press
This intriguing book provides an extraordinary tour of the Eastern European influence on Cuban culture and the multifaceted legacy of Soviet oppression and idealism.
Digital Ethnography
Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
By Natalie M. Underberg and Elayne Zorn
University of Texas Press
Here is a state-of-the-art primer on digital applications for social scientists, with explorations of the emerging field of hypermedia ethnography.
Barbecue Crossroads
Notes and Recipes from a Southern Odyssey
By Robb Walsh
University of Texas Press
The James Beard Award–winning author of the best-selling Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook and acclaimed documentary photographer O. Rufus Lovett take us on an extraordinary odyssey from Texas to the Carolinas and back to tell the story of Southern barbecue, past, present, and future—complete with more than seventy recipes.
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience
Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood
University of Texas Press
Through in-depth investigation of Soderbergh’s work in film, television, and video, as well as an extensive interview with the filmmaker, this book offers a new model of film authorship in the twenty-first century that emphasizes its fundamentally collabo
Unsettled/Desasosiego
Children in a World of Gangs/Los niños en un mundo de las pandillas
University of Texas Press
Culminating thirty years of photographing gang members and their families, award-winning photojournalist Donna De Cesare uncovers the effects of decades of war and gang violence on the lives of youths in Central America and in refugee communities in the U
The Keepers of Water and Earth
Mexican Rural Social Organization and Irrigation
By Kjell I. Enge and Scott Whiteford
University of Texas Press
This study of the Tehuacán Valley in the state of Puebla highlights different strategies to manipulate the local implementation of federal government programs and raises important questions about the meaning of the phrase "locally controlled development."
The Fight to Save Juárez
Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War
University of Texas Press
Presenting a range of viewpoints that spans from high-level Mexican and U.S. officials to ordinary narcos and family members of victims, this portrait of Mexico’s bloodiest city offers a gripping, firsthand perspective on the drug war that has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007
Structures in the Stream
Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By Todd Shallat
University of Texas Press
Todd Shallat examines the turbulent first century of the dam and canal building Corps and follows the agency's rise from European antecedents through the boom years of river development after the American Civil War.
Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle
University of Texas Press
The biography of a nineteenth-century Egyptologist.
Inside the Wire
Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons
University of Texas Press
Renowned documentary photographer Bruce Jackson presents a profoundly moving, irreplaceable portrait of the southern prison farm and the men who lived and labored on these relics of the American slave plantation.
Front Row Seat
A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush
By Eric Draper; Introduction by George W. Bush
University of Texas Press
With an extraordinary collection of images, many never before published, Chief White House Photographer Eric Draper presents a compelling, behind-the-scenes view of the entire presidency of George W. Bush, from dramatic events such as 9/11 to relaxed, int
Twentieth Century-Fox
The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935–1965
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
This sweeping and vivid history presents the innovative studio from its initial merger to the enormous success of The Sound of Music, combining film analysis with the interconnected histories of the studio, its executives, and the industry at large.
Queer Bergman
Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema
University of Texas Press
Foregrounding a fundamental aspect of the Swedish auteur’s work that has been routinely ignored, as well as the vibrant connection between postwar American queer culture and European art cinema, this book offers a pioneering reading of Bergman’s films as
Our House in the Clouds
Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador
University of Texas Press
This compelling memoir by the author of Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador vividly describes an American couple’s experience of making a second home in a rural Andean community in which they are the only outsiders.
David Lynch Swerves
Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire
University of Texas Press
In this paradigm-shifting book, the author of The Passion of David Lynch draws on insights into the filmmaker’s creative sources that he has never revealed before to forge a startlingly original template for analyzing Lynch’s recent films.
Amazon Town TV
An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil
By Richard Pace and Brian P. Hinote
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study examines television’s impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupá, in 1983, to the present.
Writing the Story of Texas
Edited by Patrick L. Cox and Kenneth E. Hendrickson
University of Texas Press
Luminaries in Texas history pay tribute to an all-star cast of thirteen historians—from J. Frank Dobie to Américo Paredes—who preserved Texas’s past, and who were often as colorful as the historical figures they studied.
From the Republic of the Rio Grande
A Personal History of the Place and the People
University of Texas Press
Using family papers, local chronicles, and scholarly works, de la Garza tells the story of the Republic of the Rio Grande and its people from the perspective of individuals who lived in this region from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Cormac McCarthy's House
Reading McCarthy Without Walls
By Peter Josyph
University of Texas Press
Acclaimed visual artist, actor-director, and writer Peter Josyph and a cast of other interpreters and critics offer a unique appreciation of the literary genius of Cormac McCarthy through directing and acting in his works, exploring their physical setting
Classical and Modern Interactions
Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturalism, Decline, and Other Issues
University of Texas Press
In this thought-provoking work, a noted classics scholar tests the ancient-modern comparison, showing what it can add to contemporary debates and what its limitations are.
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