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Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes
An Anthology
University of Texas Press
In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Precolumbian times to the present.
Tejano Journey, 1770-1850
Edited by Gerald E. Poyo
University of Texas Press
Gerald Poyo and other noted borderlands historians track the changes and continuities within Tejano communities during the years in which Texas passed from Spain to Mexico to the Republic of Texas and finally to the United States.
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The Geltung Hypothesis
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a lifetime of inquiry, travel, and teaching, Philip Wagner asserts that the drive for Geltung—personal standing, recognition, acceptance, esteem, and influence—shapes all of our interactions and defines the unique social character of human bein
LBJ and Vietnam
A Different Kind of War
University of Texas Press
An examination of how and why President Lyndon Johnson and his administration conducted the Vietnam war as they did.
Just As We Were
A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood
University of Texas Press
Writing with both a wry sense of humor and an insider’s compassion, Prudence Mackintosh offers us a fascinating look into the world of privileged, educated, well-married, well-connected, and mostly wealthy white Texas women.
From Time Immemorial
Indigenous Peoples and State Systems
University of Texas Press
Relations between state systems and indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Australia.
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Perspectives from the French and Francophone Worlds
Edited by Dina Sherzer
University of Texas Press
In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation’s past and present.
Bob Kleberg and the King Ranch
A Worldwide Sea of Grass
By John Cypher
University of Texas Press
This absorbing biography, written by Kleberg’s top assistant of many years, captures both the life of the man and the spirit of the kingdom he ruled, offering a rare, insider’s view of life on a fabled Texas ranch.
A John Graves Reader
By John Graves
University of Texas Press
An anthology of works by a beloved Texas writer.
The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555
By Robert Himmerich y Valencia; Introduction by Joseph P. Sánchez
University of Texas Press
This study profiles the 506 known encomenderos in New Spain (present-day Mexico) during the years 1521–1555, using their life histories to chart the rise, florescence, and decline of the encomienda system.
Satan's Stones
By Moniru Ravanipur; Edited by M. R. Ghanoonparvar; Translated by Persis Karim, Atoosa Kourosh, Parichehr Moin, Dylan Oehler-Stricklin, and Reza Shirazi
University of Texas Press
The first English translation of an Iranian writer's short story collection.
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
A Bilingual Anthology
Edited by Stephen Tapscott
University of Texas Press
A collection of over 400 poems by eighty-five Latin American poets.
Toward a Theory of Cultural Linguistics
University of Texas Press
In this pathfinding book, Gary B. Palmer restores imagery to a central place in studies of language and culture by bringing together the insights of cognitive linguistics and anthropology to form a new theory of cultural linguistics.
The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America
Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940
Edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre
University of Texas Press
Historical outlooks on prison reform and criminology in the Latin American context.
México Profundo
Reclaiming a Civilization
By Guillermo Bonfil Batalla; Translated by Philip A. Dennis
University of Texas Press
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.
Germans and Texans
Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic
University of Texas Press
The story of the German immigrant merchants and businesspeople who helped make Galveston a thriving international port and Houston an early Texas business center.
Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana
Healthy Mexican American Cooking
University of Texas Press
Flavorful Mexican dishes, modified to be suitable for diabetics.
Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
Volume II: The Years 1960-1977
University of Texas Press
In the second and final volume, Dulles explores the political and private life of Lacerda from 1960, when he became governor of Brazil's Guanabara state, until his death in 1977.
The Story of Big Bend National Park
By John Jameson
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive, highly readable history of Big Bend National Park from before its founding in 1944 up to the present.
Homeric Questions
By Gregory Nagy
University of Texas Press
In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written text
The Writings of Carlos Fuentes
University of Texas Press
In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes’ work, particularly in his complex, major novel Terra Nostra.
Slaves into Workers
Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan
University of Texas Press
The process of emancipation and the development of wage labor in the Sudan under British colonial rule.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Two Islands, Many Worlds
University of Texas Press
This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
The Karankawa Indians of Texas
An Ecological Study of Cultural Tradition and Change
University of Texas Press
The first modern, well-researched history of the Karankawa from prehistoric times until their extinction in the nineteenth century.
Narrative of the Incas
University of Texas Press
One of the earliest histories of the Inca empire.
Black Texas Women
A Sourcebook
University of Texas Press
The original source materials that Ruthe Winegarten uncovered during her extensive research on black women in Texas.
Antbirds and Ovenbirds
Their Lives and Homes
By Alexander F. Skutch; Illustrated by Dana Gardner
University of Texas Press
The life cycles of two families of Western Hemisphere birds.
Metaphysical Community
The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect
By Greg Urban
University of Texas Press
A South American tribe's culture is the starting point for this exploration of the uneasy tension that binds experience and understanding, phenomena and noumena.
Electronic Eros
Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age
University of Texas Press
How futuristic techno-erotic imagery in popular culture actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality.
Andean Lives
Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
Edited by Ricardo Valderrama Fernández and Carmen Escalante Gutiérrez; Translated by Paul H. Gelles and Gabriela Martínez Escobar; Introduction by Paul H. Gelles; By (photographer) Eulogio Nishiyama
University of Texas Press
The life stories of two Peruvian indigenous people.
Texian Iliad
A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
By Stephen L. Hardin; Illustrated by Gary S. Zaboly
University of Texas Press
The first complete military history of the Texas Revolution, drawing on many original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield.
Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls
Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
By Tom Holm
University of Texas Press
The experiences of Native American veterans in Vietnam and readjusting to civilian life.
Science in the Medieval World
Book of the Categories of Nations
By Sa`id al-Andalusi; Translated by Alok Kumar
University of Texas Press
A medieval Spanish Muslim manuscript describing the contributions of nine nations to human knowledge.
Native American Mathematics
Edited by Michael P. Closs
University of Texas Press
Spanning time from the prehistoric to the present, the thirteen essays in this volume attest to the variety of mathematical development present in the Americas.
Latino High School Graduation
Defying the Odds
University of Texas Press
The obstacles that cause Latino/a students to drop out of high school, and strategies to overcome them.
Indians into Mexicans
History and Identity in a Mexican Town
By David Frye
University of Texas Press
How the people of Mexquitic redefined their identity from "Indian" to "Mexican" over the last two centuries.
Guatemalan Journey
University of Texas Press
In this vividly written travel narrative, Stephen Connely Benz explores the Guatemala that casual travelers miss.
Cinema and Painting
How Art Is Used in Film
University of Texas Press
How the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition
Interpreting Environments
Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography.
Complete Works and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.
Weaving Identities
Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town
University of Texas Press
Carol Hendrickson presents an ethnography of clothing focused on the traje—particularly women’s traje—of Tecpán, Guatemala, a bi-ethnic community in the central highlands.
The Roman Goddess Ceres
University of Texas Press
In this thematic study of the Roman goddess Ceres, Barbette Spaeth explores the rich complexity of meanings and functions that grew up around the goddess from the prehistoric period to the Late Roman Empire.
The Natural History of the Traditional Quilt
University of Texas Press
An examination of the taxonomy, morphology, behavior, and ecology of quilts in their native environment—the homes of humans who make, use, keep, and bestow them.
Rereading the Spanish American Essay
Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays
Edited by Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press
This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferré, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.
Defending the Land of the Jaguar
A History of Conservation in Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first panoramic history of conservation in Mexico from pre-contact times to the current Mexican environmental movement.
The Alamo Remembered
Tejano Accounts and Perspectives
University of Texas Press
A collection of all known Tejano accounts of the Battle of the Alamo.
Expert Legal Writing
By Terri LeClercq; Introduction by Thomas R. Phillips
University of Texas Press
LeClercq covers everything a legal writer needs to know, from the mechanics of grammar and punctuation to the finer points of style, organization, and clarity of meaning.
Comanche Vocabulary
Trilingual Edition
By Manuel García Rejón; Translated by Daniel J. Gelo
University of Texas Press
The most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867.
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