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Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque
Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation
Edited by Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills
University of Texas Press
Investigating over forty key concepts from the perspectives of both Spain and Spanish America, this groundbreaking work of scholarship opens a vast new understanding of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that defined the transatlantic Spa
Kawsay Vida
A Multimedia Quechua Course for Beginners and Beyond
University of Texas Press
This innovative course book and multimedia DVD offer beginner-to-advanced level instruction in the Quechua of southern Peru and Bolivia (spoken by an estimated five million people) in its social and cultural context.
Curating at the Edge
Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border
By Kate Bonansinga; Introduction by Lucy Lippard
University of Texas Press
Capturing a place and time that are unique in American art history, a former museum director traces the curatorial process and artistic lineages linked to intriguing artists during significant shifts in the sociopolitical climate at the U.S.–Mexico border
Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture
University of Texas Press
Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this pathfinding book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
University of Texas Press
An eye-opening study of the new coalitions between Latinos and African Americans emerging throughout the Gulf South, where previously divided ethnicities are forging an unprecedented challenge to white hegemony.
Recollections of a Tejano Life
Antonio Menchaca in Texas History
Edited by Timothy M. Matovina and Jesus F. de la Teja
University of Texas Press
The first complete, annotated publication of the reminiscences of San Antonio native and Battle of San Jacinto veteran José Antonio Menchaca, with commentary that contextualizes and debates Menchaca’s claims while delivering a rich portrait of Tejano life in the nineteenth century.
Kuna Art and Shamanism
An Ethnographic Approach
By Paolo Fortis
University of Texas Press
The first book to study woodcarving and its relation to shamanism among Kuna people from the San Blas Archipelago, providing a rich new lens for understanding the Kuna worldview.
Blossoms and Blood
Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
By Jason Sperb
University of Texas Press
Drawing fascinating connections between cultural history and film authorship, Blossoms and Blood charts the development of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films, such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, offer a prescient approach to the contr
Theorizing Art Cinemas
Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond
University of Texas Press
Ranging across world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema, this book proposes a flexible, inclusive theory of art cinema that emphasizes quality, authorship, and anticommercialism.
Subterranean Struggles
New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury
University of Texas Press
Blending perspectives from geography and political ecology, this pioneering essay collection probes the recent resurgence of global investment in mineral and hydrocarbon extraction in Latin America, examining the environmental and social consequences thro
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