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Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala
University of Texas Press
The society, culture, and economy of a colonial Spanish American city.
Lightning Warrior
Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua
University of Texas Press
Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua’s monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D.
Homegirls in the Public Sphere
University of Texas Press
Marie “Keta” Miranda presents the results of an ethnographic collaboration with Chicana gang members, in which they contest popular and academic representations of Chicana/o youth and also construct their own narratives of self identity through a document
Butterflies Will Burn
Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
University of Texas Press
Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andalucía, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the vice
Black Directors in Hollywood
University of Texas Press
A first comprehensive look at the work of black Hollywood directors, from the pioneers to current talents.
With Courage and Common Sense
Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles
University of Texas Press
An extensive selection of memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy project, chronicling far-reaching changes in the ways that women participated in the world during the twentieth century.
This America of Ours
The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
University of Texas Press
The previously unpublished correspondence between two of the most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America.
Playas of the Great Plains
University of Texas Press
A state-of-the-art survey of all that is currently known about Great Plains playa ecology and conservation.
Carnival and Other Christian Festivals
Folk Theology and Folk Performance
By Max Harris
University of Texas Press
In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints’ day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout
Sugar's Life in the Hood
The Story of a Former Welfare Mother
University of Texas Press
An African American woman from the inner city tells her life story, in collaboration with an anthropologist.
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction
University of Texas Press
This popularly written and extensively illustrated book tells the intertwining stories of Henry Bumstead's career and the evolution of Hollywood art direction.
Dear Dirt Doctor
Questions Answered the Natural Way
University of Texas Press
In this revised and updated edition of The Dirt Doctor’s Guide to Organic Gardening, Howard Garrett uses a question-and-answer format to present a wealth of new information on organic gardening, landscaping, pest control, and natural living.
Cinema and the Sandinistas
Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema.
Avedon at Work
In the American West
By Laura Wilson; Introduction by Larry McMurtry
University of Texas Press
How Avedon created his famous work.
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan
Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico
University of Texas Press
In this paradigm-challenging study, Peter Cahn investigates why the coming of evangelical churches to Tzintzuntzan has produced neither the interfaith clashes nor the economic prosperity that evangelical conversion has brought to other communities in Mexi
A Law for the Lion
A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands
University of Texas Press
In telling the story of a long-ago crime and its tragic results, de la Garza sheds new light on the interethnic struggles that defined life on the U.S.-Mexico border a century ago.
The Empress Theodora
Partner of Justinian
University of Texas Press
A scholarly, yet highly accessible account of the life and times of the Empress Theodora, who rose from actress in burlesque theater to co-ruler of Byzantium.
Understanding the Language of Science
University of Texas Press
Steven Darian examines the language of science in order to analyze the patterns of thinking that underlie scientific endeavor.
Popular Tyranny
Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece
Edited by Kathryn A. Morgan
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece through the interdisciplinary perspectives provided by internationally known archaeologi
Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North
Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya
University of Texas Press
Why some Indian groups were assimiliated into Mexican culture while others remained distinct.
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