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Kinship to Kingship
Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands
University of Texas Press
The first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.
God and Production in a Guatemalan Town
University of Texas Press
How religion and community economics affect each other in rural Guatemala.
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields
By Gerald Lynch
University of Texas Press
A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.
Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One
Translated by Harold V. Livermore; By Garcilaso de la Vega
University of Texas Press
The account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler.
Women of the Left Bank
Paris, 1900-1940
University of Texas Press
An exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century.
The Exiles and Other Stories
By Horacio Quiroga; Translated by J. David Danielson
University of Texas Press
Thirteen of Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga's most compelling tales.
Measuring Cuban Economic Performance
University of Texas Press
By constructing yardsticks of economic performance for revolutionary Cuba that are compatible with those used by Western nations, Perez-López provides for the first time a basis for analyzing the real growth of the Cuban economy during the revolutionary p
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
University of Texas Press
A major work on the history of Mexicans in Texas and the relations between Mexicans and Anglos.
The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930
By Steven Topik
University of Texas Press
Based on extensive primary source material, this overview of the Brazilian republican state demonstrates that it was one of the most interventionist in Latin America well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929.
William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions
University of Texas Press
In this first major study of epistolarity in Faulkner’s work, James G. Watson examines Faulkner’s personal correspondence as a unique second canon of writing, separate from his literary canon with its many fictional letters but developing along parallel l
The Pleasure of Miss Pym
University of Texas Press
A critical study of Barbara Pym as comic writer and of the links between her life and autobiographical writings and her fiction, written with a liveliness of style and tone that matches Pym's own.
Stone Tool Use at Cerros
The Ethnoarchaeological and Use-Wear Evidence
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive experimental study of tool use in an agricultural society.
Appointment of Judges
The Johnson Presidency
University of Texas Press
This book explores the process of making judicial appointments, examining how judges were selected during Lyndon Baines Johnson's administration and the president's own participation in the process.
The Princes of Naranja
An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method
University of Texas Press
Paul Friedrich looks closely at the strong men of the Tarascan Indian village of Naranja: their leadership, friendship, kinship, and violent local politics (over a time depth of one generation), and ways to understand such phenomena.
Rip Ford’s Texas
By John Salmon Ford; Edited by Stephen B. Oates
University of Texas Press
The memoirs of a man who participlated in virtually every major event in Texas history from 1836 to 1896.
A World Outside
The Fiction of Paul Bowles
University of Texas Press
Beginning with Bowles' account of a frightening childhood memory, A World Outside explores how the dichotomies of inside and outside, safety and danger, enclosure and exposure—fundamental dualities in Bowles' fiction—have their deepest origin in the fabri
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
University of Texas Press
Six short works from the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union.
Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution
University of Texas Press
A critical study of the thought of Augusto Cesar Sandino and his followers.
Cinema and Social Change in Latin America
Conversations with Filmmakers
Edited by Julianne Burton
University of Texas Press
Twenty interviews with key figures of Latin American cinema, covering three decades and ranging from Argentina to Mexico
Marianne Moore, Subversive Modernist
By Taffy Martin
University of Texas Press
In this book, Taffy Martin combines traditional scholarship and contemporary critical theory to create a feminist reading of one of the twentieth century's most difficult poets.
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
University of Texas Press
An English translation of a Mayan history of Yucatan.
Facts as I Remember Them
The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors
By Rufe LeFors; Edited by John Allen Peterson
University of Texas Press
LeFors's life story, set down near the end of his long and adventurous life, is the best sort of insider's history, the chronicle of a life lived fully amid the exciting events and rough landscape of the frontier's final years.
Big and Bright
A History of the McDonald Observatory
University of Texas Press
Based on personal reminiscences and archival material, as well as published historical sources, Big and Bright is one of the few histories of a major observatory, unique in its focus on the human side of the story.
The Southeast Maya Periphery
Edited by Patricia A. Urban and Edward M. Schortman
University of Texas Press
Spanning over two thousand years of Maya prehistory, from the Middle Preclassic through the Classic and the poorly understood Postclassic, the papers in this volume address such topics as epigraphy and iconography, architecture, site planning, settlement
White House Operations
The Johnson Presidency
University of Texas Press
This exploration of Lyndon B. Johnson’s highly personalized White House operations provides far-reaching implications for the nature of effective presidential management.
Theatre for Youth
Twelve Plays with Mature Themes
Edited by Coleman A. Jennings and Gretta Berghammer
University of Texas Press
This book examines twelve plays that deal with mature themes: aging, death and dying, conformity, sexuality, divorce, moral culpability
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Ethnohistory
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Ronald Spores
University of Texas Press
A review of research in Mesoamerican colonial ethnohistory.
Mary, Michael, and Lucifer
Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico
University of Texas Press
A modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy.
Industry, the State, and Public Policy in Mexico
By Dale Story
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the political and economic role of industrial entrepreneurs in postwar Mexico.
Alex Sweet's Texas
The Lighter Side of Lone Star History
By Alexaner Edwin Sweet; Edited by Virginia Eisenhour
University of Texas Press
A selection of Sweet's humorous essays about Texas.
South by Southwest
24 Stories from Modern Texas
Edited by Don Graham
University of Texas Press
These Texas stories are among the best produced by the state’s writers in the mid-twentieth century.
Poetics of Change
The New Spanish-American Narrative
By Julio Ortega; Translated by Galen D. Greaser
University of Texas Press
This book brings together Ortega’s most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, García Márquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.
The São Paulo Law School and the Anti-Vargas Resistance (1938-1945)
University of Texas Press
The São Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country’s leadership; this book tells about the school's role in Brazilian historical events.
The Art of Reciting the Qur'an
University of Texas Press
By examining Muslim attitudes toward the Qur'an, the institutions that regulate its recitation, and performer-audience expectations and interaction, Kristina Nelson, a trained Arabist and musicologist, casts new light on the significance of Qur'anic recit
The Language Parallax
Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy
University of Texas Press
Paul Friedrich's The Language Parallax argues persuasively that the "locus and focus" of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions—in the nuances of words, or
Mexican American Fertility Patterns
By Frank D. Bean and Gray Swicegood
University of Texas Press
This study examines Mexican American fertility patterns in the decade 1970-1980.
Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico
University of Texas Press
Roderic Camp’s examination of intellectuals in Mexico is the first study of a Latin American country to detail the structure of intellectual life, rather than merely considering intellectual ideas.
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine
University of Texas Press
In this culmination of over twenty years of research, the author employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.
Every Sun That Rises
Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake
Edited by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad
University of Texas Press
The oral history of a lifelong resident of Caddo Lake.
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