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De León, a Tejano Family History
University of Texas Press
Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of three generations of the de León family, one of the founding families of Texas.
Conversations with Isabel Allende
Revised Edition
Edited by John Rodden; Introduction by Isabel Allende
University of Texas Press
A collection of interviews with the famous Chilean-American author.
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
University of Texas Press
The essays in this book offer a new baseline for understanding the effect of Philodemus and Epicureanism on both the thought and poetic practices of Vergil, Horace, and other Augustan writers.
Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
University of Texas Press
Highly perceptive queer readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance while they simultaneously disclose how homophobia enforces the norms of heterosexuality.
Homeric Responses
By Gregory Nagy
University of Texas Press
A series of essays that further elaborate the author's theories regarding the oral composition and evolution of the Homeric epics.
Birds of Belize
By H. Lee Jones; Illustrated by Dana Gardner
University of Texas Press
Birds of Belize provides the first complete guide to the identification of all currently known species--574 in all.
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America
University of Texas Press
In this provocative study, Kimberly Gauderman undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in sevent
The Devil's Book of Culture
History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico
University of Texas Press
In this highly original ethnography, Benjamin Feinberg investigates how different understandings of Mazatec identity and culture emerge through talk that circulates within and among various groups, including Mazatec-speaking businessmen, curers, peasants,
Straddling the Border
Immigration Policy and the INS
By Lisa Magaña
University of Texas Press
Why a profound disconnection between national-level policymaking and local-level policy implementation prevents the INS from effectively fulfilling either its enforcement or its service mission.
Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies
Shahrazad Tells Her Story
University of Texas Press
The author applies a variety of western critical theories, including Marxism, colonial discourse, feminism, and narrative theory, to the autobiographies of several Arab women to demonstrate what these critical methodologies can reveal about Arab women's w
Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala
University of Texas Press
The society, culture, and economy of a colonial Spanish American city.
Lightning Warrior
Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua
University of Texas Press
Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua’s monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D.
Homegirls in the Public Sphere
University of Texas Press
Marie “Keta” Miranda presents the results of an ethnographic collaboration with Chicana gang members, in which they contest popular and academic representations of Chicana/o youth and also construct their own narratives of self identity through a document
Butterflies Will Burn
Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
University of Texas Press
Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andalucía, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the vice
Black Directors in Hollywood
University of Texas Press
A first comprehensive look at the work of black Hollywood directors, from the pioneers to current talents.
With Courage and Common Sense
Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles
University of Texas Press
An extensive selection of memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy project, chronicling far-reaching changes in the ways that women participated in the world during the twentieth century.
This America of Ours
The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
University of Texas Press
The previously unpublished correspondence between two of the most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America.
Playas of the Great Plains
University of Texas Press
A state-of-the-art survey of all that is currently known about Great Plains playa ecology and conservation.
Carnival and Other Christian Festivals
Folk Theology and Folk Performance
By Max Harris
University of Texas Press
In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints’ day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout
Sugar's Life in the Hood
The Story of a Former Welfare Mother
University of Texas Press
An African American woman from the inner city tells her life story, in collaboration with an anthropologist.
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction
University of Texas Press
This popularly written and extensively illustrated book tells the intertwining stories of Henry Bumstead's career and the evolution of Hollywood art direction.
Dear Dirt Doctor
Questions Answered the Natural Way
University of Texas Press
In this revised and updated edition of The Dirt Doctor’s Guide to Organic Gardening, Howard Garrett uses a question-and-answer format to present a wealth of new information on organic gardening, landscaping, pest control, and natural living.
Cinema and the Sandinistas
Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema.
Avedon at Work
In the American West
By Laura Wilson; Introduction by Larry McMurtry
University of Texas Press
How Avedon created his famous work.
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan
Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico
University of Texas Press
In this paradigm-challenging study, Peter Cahn investigates why the coming of evangelical churches to Tzintzuntzan has produced neither the interfaith clashes nor the economic prosperity that evangelical conversion has brought to other communities in Mexi
A Law for the Lion
A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands
University of Texas Press
In telling the story of a long-ago crime and its tragic results, de la Garza sheds new light on the interethnic struggles that defined life on the U.S.-Mexico border a century ago.
The Empress Theodora
Partner of Justinian
University of Texas Press
A scholarly, yet highly accessible account of the life and times of the Empress Theodora, who rose from actress in burlesque theater to co-ruler of Byzantium.
Understanding the Language of Science
University of Texas Press
Steven Darian examines the language of science in order to analyze the patterns of thinking that underlie scientific endeavor.
Popular Tyranny
Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece
Edited by Kathryn A. Morgan
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece through the interdisciplinary perspectives provided by internationally known archaeologi
Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North
Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya
University of Texas Press
Why some Indian groups were assimiliated into Mexican culture while others remained distinct.
Witchcraft and Welfare
Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
University of Texas Press
A masterful ethnography of Puerto Rican brujos, who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities.
Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations
Choosing Issues, Taking Sides
University of Texas Press
This book sheds new light on the process of political identity formation through a study of the identity politics practiced by four major Mexican American political organizations.
Baetica Felix
People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus
University of Texas Press
An analysis of what factors made a Roman province prosperous.
Maya Palaces and Elite Residences
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Edited by Jessica Joyce Christie
University of Texas Press
This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences.
Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59
Translated by Victor Bers
University of Texas Press
This set of ten law court speeches gives a vivid sense of public and private life in fourth-century BC Athens.
Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture
University of Texas Press
How dance was depicted in Near Eastern Neolithic artifacts.
Concept and Controversy
Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market
By W. W. Rostow
University of Texas Press
In this thought-provoking memoir, W. W. Rostow takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the
Arab-American Faces and Voices
The Origins of an Immigrant Community
University of Texas Press
The experiences of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the Americas between 1880 and 1915, and their descendants.
Alex and the Hobo
A Chicano Life and Story
By José Inez Taylor and James M. Taggart
University of Texas Press
In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart collaborates with author Joe Taylor to explore how the story "Alex and the Hobo" sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an insider's view of Mexicano culture and its construct
Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics
University of Texas Press
In this book, Victoria Rodríguez offers the first comprehensive analysis of how Mexican women have taken advantage of new opportunities to participate in the political process through elected and appointed office, nongovernmental organizations, and grassr
The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States
Revolution or Evolution?
By Megan Mullen
University of Texas Press
A study of the first half-century of cable television and why it never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication.
The Global Environment and International Law
University of Texas Press
How international law has been used -- successfully and otherwise -- to protect the global environment.
The Contemporáneos Group
Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties
University of Texas Press
Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporáneos--Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustín Lazo, Guadalupe Marín, and Jorge Cuesta--and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the rea
Reading between Designs
Visual Imagery and the Generation of Meaning in The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who
By Piers D. Britton and Simon J. Barker
University of Texas Press
An analytical study of scenic and costume design in three 1960s television drama series.
Postethnic Narrative Criticism
Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
University of Texas Press
This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.
Las Tejanas
300 Years of History
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas' contributions to Texas over three centuries.
Imagining Identity in New Spain
Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings
University of Texas Press
Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptu
Horton Foote
A Literary Biography
University of Texas Press
This literary biography thoroughly investigates how Horton Foote's life and worldview have shaped his works for stage, television, and film.
Felix Longoria's Wake
Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism
By Patrick J. Carroll; Foreword by José E. Limón
University of Texas Press
How a controversy over a slain Mexican American soldier contributed to the rise of Mexican American activism.
Crafting Tradition
The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations.
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