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Here, Our Culture Is Hard
Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize
University of Texas Press
How Mayan women endure, escape, and avoid abuse.
Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus
University of Texas Press
The surviving speeches of three orators from the end of the classical period.
Technology and Place
Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm
By Steven A. Moore; Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
University of Texas Press
In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrial
Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook
University of Texas Press
An examination of the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings.
Histories and Stories from Chiapas
Border Identities in Southern Mexico
University of Texas Press
In this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aída Hernández delves into the experience of a Maya group, the Mam, to analyze how Chiapas’s indigenous peoples have in fact rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on "being Me
Consuming Grief
Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of mortuary cannibalism in a South American indigenous culture.
Amigas
Letters of Friendship and Exile
University of Texas Press
This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their curre
Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
By Brian S. Bauer and Charles Stanish
University of Texas Press
The development of an Inca religious pilgrimage tradition.
ReMembering Cuba
Legacy of a Diaspora
University of Texas Press
Through narratives, interviews, creative writings, letters, journal entries, recipes, photographs, and paintings, Cubans from various waves of the migration and their descendants piece together a complex mosaic of the exile experience and diasporic identi
Reel Knockouts
Violent Women in Film
Edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King
University of Texas Press
In the first book-length study of violent women in movies, Reel Knockouts makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from top-grossing to direct-to-video, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks.
Greek and Roman Comedy
Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays
Edited by Shawn O'Bryhim; Translated by George Fredric Franko, Timothy J. Moore, Shawn O'Bryhim, and S. Douglas Olson
University of Texas Press
Four plays that introduce ancient comedy to a modern audience.
Ancient Egyptian Literature
An Anthology
Translated by John L. Foster
University of Texas Press
Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still being recited around hearth fires in ancient Greece and Israel; this anthology offers an extensive sampling
Lourdes Portillo
The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films
Edited by Rosa Linda Fregoso
University of Texas Press
The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes typically hidden from view.
Blacks in Colonial Veracruz
Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development
University of Texas Press
The book probes the conditions that shaped the lives of inhabitants in Veracruz from the first European contact through the early formative period, colonial years, independence era, and the postindependence decade.
Women Filmmakers in Mexico
The Country of Which We Dream
University of Texas Press
How and why women filmmakers became key figures in contemporary Mexican cinema.
Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico
By Ross Hassig
University of Texas Press
A bold new look at the Aztec conception of time.
The Path to a Modern South
Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression
University of Texas Press
The forces that turned Northeast Texas from a poverty-stricken region into a more economically prosperous area.
Of Wonders and Wise Men
Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876
University of Texas Press
Religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876.
Looking for Carrascolendas
From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television
By Aida Barrera
University of Texas Press
In this engagingly written memoir, creator-producer Aida Barrera describes how the mythical world of Carrascolendas grew out of her real-life experiences as a Mexican American child growing up in the Valley of South Texas.
Homesteads Ungovernable
Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860
University of Texas Press
Mark Carroll draws on legal and social history to trace the evolution of sexual, family, and racial-caste relations in the most turbulent polity on the southern frontier during the antebellum period (1823–1860).
Telling Stories, Writing Songs
An Album of Texas Songwriters
University of Texas Press
In this collection of thirty-four interviews with Texas songwriters, Kathleen Hudson pursues the stories behind the songs, letting the singers' own words describe where their songs come from and how the diverse, eclectic cultures, landscapes, and musical
Prehistory of the Rustler Hills
Granado Cave
University of Texas Press
This book provides detailed insights into the lifeways of the little-known prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Northeastern Trans-Pecos region.
Mexican Suite
A History of Photography in Mexico
By Olivier Debroise; Translated by Stella de Sá Rego
University of Texas Press
The English translation of the first comprehensive history of photography in Mexico.
Max Ernst and Alchemy
A Magician in Search of Myth
By M. E. Warlick; Introduction by Franklin Rosemont
University of Texas Press
Taking a wholly different perspective on Max Ernst and alchemy, the author persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career.
La Gran Línea
Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857
By Paula Rebert
University of Texas Press
This book documents the accomplishments of both the U.S. and the Mexican Boundary Commissions that mapped the boundary between 1849 and 1857.
Intercultural Communication
A Practical Guide
University of Texas Press
An authoritative, practical guide for deciphering and following "the rules" that govern cultures, with a demonstration of how these rules apply to the communication issues that exist between the United States and Mexico.
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist
University of Texas Press
In this highly readable memoir, Bernard Gordon tells a engrossing insider’s story of what it was like to be blacklisted and how he and others continued to work uncredited behind the scenes, writing and producing many box office hits of the era.
Blood in the Arena
The Spectacle of Roman Power
University of Texas Press
An exploration of the Roman amphitheater as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces.
Bandits, Peasants, and Politics
The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia
University of Texas Press
A study of social banditry in Colombia during a near-civil war.
A Poetics for Screenwriters
By Lance Lee
University of Texas Press
A thorough overview of all the dramatic elements of screenplays.
The Lieutenant Nun
Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso
University of Texas Press
This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed.
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
By Betty De Shong Meador; Introduction by Judy Grahn
University of Texas Press
Translations of the oldest written literature to have a known author: the Inanna poems by the Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna.
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950
Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
By Gerald Horne
University of Texas Press
This engrossing book probes the motives and actions of all the players to reveal the full story of the Conference of Studio Unions strike and the resulting lockout of 1946.
Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?
A B-Novel
By Caio Fernando Abreu; Translated by Adria Frizzi
University of Texas Press
In this novel, a forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna is called upon to write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier.
Joyce and the Two Irelands
University of Texas Press
This book fully explores James Joyce’s complex response to the Irish Revival and his extensive treatment of the relationship between the "two Irelands" in his letters, essays, book reviews, and fiction.
How Cities Work
Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
University of Texas Press
A hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work -- or not work.
Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive description and analysis of gender and power relations in prehispanic Mesoamerica.
Warm Springs Millennium
Voices from the Reservation
University of Texas Press
Stories from a Native American reservation, giving the voices of a living and viable people.
Ireland and the Classical World
University of Texas Press
In this book, Philip Freeman explores the relations between ancient Ireland and the classical world through a comprehensive survey of all Greek and Latin literary sources that mention Ireland.
Guaman Poma
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru
University of Texas Press
By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history.
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