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The Mixe of Oaxaca
Religion, Ritual, and Healing
By Frank J. Lipp; Introduction by Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them.
Surrealist Women
An International Anthology
Edited by Penelope Rosemont
University of Texas Press
This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism.
Small-headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday. He Didn’t Leave His Name.
and other stories
By Pete Dunne; Illustrated by Louise Zemaitis
University of Texas Press
In thirty-two vintage essays, Pete Dunne explores the worlds of birds and birders.
Protestantism in Guatemala
Living in the New Jerusalem
University of Texas Press
The first English-language history of Protestantism in Guatemala.
Torture in Brazil
A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979, Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of São Paulo
University of Texas Press
The English translation of Brasil: Nunca Mais, a catalog of how torture was used in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
The Life of Our Language
Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization
University of Texas Press
How a Mayan language changes and is maintained within its culture.
Practicing Community
Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood
University of Texas Press
How a working-class community works to preserve their community.
Indigenous Aesthetics
Native Art, Media, and Identity
University of Texas Press
A rich study of Native American aesthetics, art, media, and identity.
Anita Brenner
A Mind of Her Own
By Susannah Joel Glusker; Introduction by Carlos Monsiváis
University of Texas Press
This intellectual biography brings to light a complex, fascinating woman who bridged many worlds--the United States and Mexico, art and politics, professional work and family life.
The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle
Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990
University of Texas Press
A history of capital punishment in Texas.
Nameless Towns
Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad
University of Texas Press
Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the east Texas sawmill communities.
Men as Women, Women as Men
Changing Gender in Native American Cultures
By Sabine Lang; Translated by John L. Vantine
University of Texas Press
An objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span.
Houses behind the Trees
By Mohamed El-Bisatie; Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
University of Texas Press
Set in a small village in the Egyptian Delta, El-Bisatie's finely tuned novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions in a community in which nothing is secret and where people's pasts haunt their present.
The Jazz of the Southwest
An Oral History of Western Swing
By Jean A. Boyd
University of Texas Press
The origins and development of western swing as a vibrant current in the mainstream of jazz.
Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948
University of Texas Press
This historical investigation yields new insights into the patterns of segregation that persist in American society today.
Plants of the Metroplex
Newly Revised Edition
By Howard Garrett; Introduction by Alex Burton
University of Texas Press
Covering Texas and beyond, Plants of the Metroplex is the only Texas book available giving practical landscape advice from a landscape architect’s point of view.
Montana Ghost Dance
Essays on Land and Life
University of Texas Press
This book eloquently explores how the search for a perfect place is driving growth, development, and resource exploitation in Big Sky country.
Gente Decente
A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance
University of Texas Press
A study of Mexican American writers who provided counternarratives to Walter P. Webb's images of "savage" Mexicans and Indians.
The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press
Naomi Lindstrom examines five concepts that are currently the focus of intense debate among Latin American writers and thinkers.
Lost in the City: Tree of Desire and Serafin
Two novels by Ignacio Solares
University of Texas Press
These two novels by one of Mexico’s premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life.
Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles
University of Texas Press
This book explores the factors that lead to childbearing among Latina adolescents.
Inventing the Savage
The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
By Luana Ross
University of Texas Press
How imprisoned Native American women are treated within the criminal justice system.
Feminism, Film, Fascism
Women's Auto/biographical Film in Postwar Germany
University of Texas Press
An analysis of five important films that reflect back on the Third Reich through the experiences of women of different ages.
Antiphon and Andocides
Translated by Michael Gagarin and Douglas M. MacDowell
University of Texas Press
Speeches from the two earliest Greek orators whose works still survive.
The Shattered Mirror
Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
University of Texas Press
How the popular images of women in Mexican literature have changed in the 20th century.
Restavec
From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American
By Jean-Robert Cadet; Introduction by Cynthia Nassano Cadet
University of Texas Press
The harrowing story of a man's childhood as a virtual slave, and how he eventually built a successful life in the United States.
Pretty Pictures
Production Design and the History Film
University of Texas Press
A designer and filmmaker shows how production design can support or contradict narrative structure, or exist in an entirely parallel realm of meaning.
From Sail to Steam
Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive overview of Texas' merchant and military marine history.
Battle on the Bay
The Civil War Struggle for Galveston
University of Texas Press
A narrativehistory of the Civil War years in Galveston, Texas.
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