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The Codex Mexicanus
A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking book offers the first scholarly analysis of the entire Codex Mexicanus, an enigmatic sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript, and shows how it helped the Aztec adapt to life in colonial Mexico
Portraying the Aztec Past
The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin
University of Texas Press
Offering the first extended comparison of three closely related painted manuscripts from colonial Mexico, this book reveals how differences in their materials and composition show the evolution of the native pictorial tradition.
Moving In and Out of Islam
Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
University of Texas Press
With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people’s rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt
Navigating the Margins of Respectability
By L. L. Wynn
University of Texas Press
Combining vivid stories of love affairs with classic anthropological theories of kinship, gift-giving, and honor, this rich ethnography documents how ideals of relationships and respectability clash with the reality of life in modern Cairo.
No Alternative
Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico
University of Texas Press
Contrasting the birthing practices of upper-class and indigenous women, this ethnography of the alternative birth movement in Mexico offers new understandings of female empowerment, citizenship, and the commodification of indigenous culture.
Managed Migrations
Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century
University of Texas Press
Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.
Hollywood in San Francisco
Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.
Beyoncé in Formation
Remixing Black Feminism
University of Texas Press
In this enthralling, empowering “mixtape” memoir, a visionary feminist scholar retraces her personal journey while reflecting on the painful legacies and exhilarating liberations that permeate Beyoncé’s game-changing Lemonade album.
São Paulo
A Graphic Biography
Edited by Felipe Correa
University of Texas Press
This extensively illustrated, bilingual English-Portuguese volume traces the physical development of Brazil’s largest city and presents a blueprint for transforming its aging industrial areas into mixed-use affordable housing districts.
The Devil's Fork
By Bill Wittliff; Illustrated by Edward Carey
University of Texas Press
In this engrossing conclusion to The Devil’s Backbone and The Devil’s Sinkhole, the young man Papa and his cowboy amigo Calley Pearsall encounter relentless enemies and supernatural helpers as their escapades drive them toward the Devil’s Fork.
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