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The Mixe of Oaxaca
Religion, Ritual, and Healing
By Frank J. Lipp; Introduction by Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them.
Surrealist Women
An International Anthology
Edited by Penelope Rosemont
University of Texas Press
This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism.
Small-headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday. He Didn’t Leave His Name.
and other stories
By Pete Dunne; Illustrated by Louise Zemaitis
University of Texas Press
In thirty-two vintage essays, Pete Dunne explores the worlds of birds and birders.
Protestantism in Guatemala
Living in the New Jerusalem
University of Texas Press
The first English-language history of Protestantism in Guatemala.
Torture in Brazil
A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979, Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of São Paulo
University of Texas Press
The English translation of Brasil: Nunca Mais, a catalog of how torture was used in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
The Life of Our Language
Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization
University of Texas Press
How a Mayan language changes and is maintained within its culture.
Practicing Community
Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood
University of Texas Press
How a working-class community works to preserve their community.
Indigenous Aesthetics
Native Art, Media, and Identity
University of Texas Press
A rich study of Native American aesthetics, art, media, and identity.
Anita Brenner
A Mind of Her Own
By Susannah Joel Glusker; Introduction by Carlos Monsiváis
University of Texas Press
This intellectual biography brings to light a complex, fascinating woman who bridged many worlds--the United States and Mexico, art and politics, professional work and family life.
The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle
Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990
University of Texas Press
A history of capital punishment in Texas.
Nameless Towns
Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad
University of Texas Press
Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the east Texas sawmill communities.
Men as Women, Women as Men
Changing Gender in Native American Cultures
By Sabine Lang; Translated by John L. Vantine
University of Texas Press
An objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span.
Houses behind the Trees
By Mohamed El-Bisatie; Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
University of Texas Press
Set in a small village in the Egyptian Delta, El-Bisatie's finely tuned novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions in a community in which nothing is secret and where people's pasts haunt their present.
The Jazz of the Southwest
An Oral History of Western Swing
By Jean A. Boyd
University of Texas Press
The origins and development of western swing as a vibrant current in the mainstream of jazz.
Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948
University of Texas Press
This historical investigation yields new insights into the patterns of segregation that persist in American society today.
Plants of the Metroplex
Newly Revised Edition
By Howard Garrett; Introduction by Alex Burton
University of Texas Press
Covering Texas and beyond, Plants of the Metroplex is the only Texas book available giving practical landscape advice from a landscape architect’s point of view.
Montana Ghost Dance
Essays on Land and Life
University of Texas Press
This book eloquently explores how the search for a perfect place is driving growth, development, and resource exploitation in Big Sky country.
Gente Decente
A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance
University of Texas Press
A study of Mexican American writers who provided counternarratives to Walter P. Webb's images of "savage" Mexicans and Indians.
The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press
Naomi Lindstrom examines five concepts that are currently the focus of intense debate among Latin American writers and thinkers.
Lost in the City: Tree of Desire and Serafin
Two novels by Ignacio Solares
University of Texas Press
These two novels by one of Mexico’s premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life.
Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles
University of Texas Press
This book explores the factors that lead to childbearing among Latina adolescents.
Inventing the Savage
The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
By Luana Ross
University of Texas Press
How imprisoned Native American women are treated within the criminal justice system.
Feminism, Film, Fascism
Women's Auto/biographical Film in Postwar Germany
University of Texas Press
An analysis of five important films that reflect back on the Third Reich through the experiences of women of different ages.
Antiphon and Andocides
Translated by Michael Gagarin and Douglas M. MacDowell
University of Texas Press
Speeches from the two earliest Greek orators whose works still survive.
The Shattered Mirror
Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
University of Texas Press
How the popular images of women in Mexican literature have changed in the 20th century.
Restavec
From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American
By Jean-Robert Cadet; Introduction by Cynthia Nassano Cadet
University of Texas Press
The harrowing story of a man's childhood as a virtual slave, and how he eventually built a successful life in the United States.
Pretty Pictures
Production Design and the History Film
University of Texas Press
A designer and filmmaker shows how production design can support or contradict narrative structure, or exist in an entirely parallel realm of meaning.
From Sail to Steam
Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive overview of Texas' merchant and military marine history.
Battle on the Bay
The Civil War Struggle for Galveston
University of Texas Press
A narrativehistory of the Civil War years in Galveston, Texas.
Trees & Shrubs of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas
University of Texas Press
The only keyed guide to the more than 400 species of woody plants native to the Trans-Pecos region and adjacent areas.
Our Joyce
From Outcast to Icon
By Joseph Kelly
University of Texas Press
This book explores an amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed.
The Second Conquest of Latin America
Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930
Edited by Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells
University of Texas Press
How Latin America's exporting of three major commodities changed the region.
Texas Land Ethics
University of Texas Press
A new vision for living on the land, a "land ethic" that respects the stability, integrity, and beauty of the "land community."
Intimate Commerce
Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy
University of Texas Press
An illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and Euripides’ Alcestis.
Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House
Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition
University of Texas Press
The first interdisciplinary cultural study of a major exhibition of Chicano/a art.
The Political Economy of Latin America in the Postwar Period
Edited by Laura Randall
University of Texas Press
An examination of the economic policies and their outcomes in several Latin American states.
Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century
University of Texas Press
A thematic account of the Iranian intelligentsia from the Constitutional movement of 1905 to the post-1979 revolution.
For All Seasons
A Big Bend Journal
By Roland H. Wauer; Illustrated by Nancy McGowan
University of Texas Press
In this book, Roland Wauer shares his love of the Big Bend through journal entries that chronicle a year in the life of the park.
Sacred Leaves of Candomblé
African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
University of Texas Press
This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candomblé’s healing pharmacopoeia—the sacred leaves.
The Passion of David Lynch
Wild at Heart in Hollywood
University of Texas Press
Close readings of Lynch's films, informed by unprecedented, in-depth interviews with Lynch himself.
Selznick's Vision
Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking
By Alan David Vertrees; Introduction by Thomas Schatz
University of Texas Press
Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a megalomaniacal meddler whose hiring and firing of directors and screenwriters created a patchwork film that succeeded despite his interference.
Science in Medieval Islam
An Illustrated Introduction
University of Texas Press
This book offers a fully illustrated, highly accessible introduction to the scientific achievements of medieval Islam.
Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico
University of Texas Press
A much-needed overview of Mexican colonial architecture and its attendant sculpture.
American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court
The Masking of Justice
University of Texas Press
In this book, David Wilkins examines fifteen landmark cases in which the Supreme Court significantly curtailed Indian rights.
Wildflowers of Houston and Southeast Texas
By John L. Tveten and Gloria Tveten
University of Texas Press
The first guide to the wildflowers of the Houston area; also useful in nearby parts of Texas.
Vietnam
The Early Decisions
Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger
University of Texas Press
In this fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the challenge to provide us with their conclusions about the early decisions that put the United States on the path to the greatest American tragedy since the Civil War.
The Caddo Nation
Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
By Timothy K. Perttula; Introduction by Thomas R. Hester
University of Texas Press
An exploration of Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records.
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
University of Texas Press
This book brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.
Mummies and Mortuary Monuments
A Postprocessual Prehistory of Central Andean Social Organization
University of Texas Press
A boldly revisionist view of the organization of the ayllu, ancient Andean kinship groups.
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