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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.
Children in the Muslim Middle East
Edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
University of Texas Press
This anthology is an attempt to look at the current situation of children in the Middle East by presenting materials by both Middle Eastern and Western scholars.
Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive picture of women's status and opportunities in late eighteenth-century Egypt.
The Mexican Outsiders
A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California
University of Texas Press
How the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin people became institutionalized in a representative California town.
Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio
University of Texas Press
A social history of the peoples of early San Antonio and their interactions and interrelationships.
Prospero's Daughter
The Prose of Rosario Castellanos
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of all Castellanos’ prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos’ experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas.
Playback
By Richard "Cactus" Pryor; Introduction by Liz Carpenter
University of Texas Press
This book gathers over forty of Texas humorist Cactus Pryor’s favorite radio essays, translating "ear words into eye words," as he puts it.
Oil, Banks, and Politics
The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917–1924
University of Texas Press
An examination of the direct impact of a powerful, highly profitable foreign-controlled industry on a government and a nation trying to recover from a major civil war.
Mexican American Youth Organization
Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas
By Armando Navarro; Introduction by Mario C. Compean
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive assessment of MAYO’s history, politics, leadership, ideology, strategies and tactics, and activist program.
FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos
University of Texas Press
In this thought-provoking book, Fredrick Pike takes a wide-ranging look at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's motives for pursuing the Good Neighbor Policy, at how he implemented it, and at how its themes have played out up to the mid-1990s.
Cuisine, Texas
A Multiethnic Feast
By Joanne Smith; Introduction by Mary Faulk Koock
University of Texas Press
Recipes from the many cultures that make up modern Texas.
Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768
University of Texas Press
William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768.
Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna
By Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, and Valerio Núñez; Edited by Hans Roeder; Translated by Elisabeth King; Introduction by James Howe
University of Texas Press
Plants, animals, and their place in the culture of an indigenous people of Panama.
Images from the Underworld
Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period, plus a complete visual catalog of the cave art of Naj Tunich, some of which has been subsequently destroyed by vandals.
A Trade like Any Other
Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
University of Texas Press
The lives of female performers and the reasons why work they regard as "a trade like any other" is considered disreputable in Egyptian society.
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
University of Texas Press
Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family.
Song of the Heart
Selected Poems by Ramón López Velarde
University of Texas Press
This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to López Velarde's poetry.
Mount Sinai
University of Texas Press
How the mountain Jebel Musa, revered by most Christians and Muslims as Mount Sinai, came to be considered a sacred place and how that very perception now threatens its fragile ecology and its sense of holy solitude.
The Last Cannibals
A South American Oral History
University of Texas Press
An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society.
The Unruly Woman
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
University of Texas Press
How the unruly woman uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.
The Reformation of Machismo
Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Brusco explores the intra-household motivations for evangelical conversion in Colombia.
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