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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.

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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.

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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

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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Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in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

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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.

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With Courage and Common Sense

Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles

Edited by Susan Wittig Albert and Dayna Finet; Introduction by Liz Carpenter
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.

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This America of Ours

The Letters of 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The previously unpublished correspondence between two of the most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America.

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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.

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Carnival and Other Christian Festivals

Folk Theology and Folk Performance

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Avedon at Work

In the American West

By Laura Wilson; Introduction by Larry McMurtry
University of Texas Press

How Avedon created his famous work.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Popular Tyranny

Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece

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

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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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