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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

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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.

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Moving In and Out of Islam

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.

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Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

Navigating the Margins of Respectability

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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