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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.
Constituent and Pattern in Poetry
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays on literature and language, built on the assumption that works of literature have existence in the real world and that they may be analyzed in a fashion that is not totally subjective.
American Folklife
Edited by Don Yoder
University of Texas Press
This unique collection of essays dedicated to the presentation of American tradition broadens our understanding of the regional differences and ethnic folkways that color American life.
Urban Latin America
The Political Condition from Above and Below
By Alejandro Portes and John Walton
University of Texas Press
This book is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem.
Under the Rainbow
Nature and Supernature among the Panare Indians
University of Texas Press
This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16
Sources Cited and Artifacts Illustrated
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Margaret A.L. Harrison
University of Texas Press
This volume is a reference for citations in Volumes 1-11 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, listing all the bibliographical entries cited and detailing the location (at the time of original publication) of the owner of each pre-Columbian American artifact illustrated.
Citizens for Decency
Antipornography Crusades as Status Defense
University of Texas Press
The first systematic, comprehensive, and theory-oriented study of antipornography crusades and one of the few studies that analyze movements to resist change.
Evolution of Desert Biota
Edited by David W. Goodall
University of Texas Press
Written by specialists in the field, the papers in this volume explore evolution of animals and plants on the deserts of North America, South America, and Australia.
The Yanoama Indians
A Cultural Geography
University of Texas Press
This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.
The Comic Spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca
University of Texas Press
How this Spanish poet and playwright uses humor to try to come to terms with what he sees as the essentially hopeless condition of humankind.
Fields of the Tzotzil
The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas
University of Texas Press
The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.
Dramatists in Revolt
The New Latin American Theater
Edited by Leon F. Lyday and George W. Woodyard
University of Texas Press
Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.
The Spanish American Novel
A Twentieth-Century Survey
University of Texas Press
John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.
A Search for Solvency
Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971
University of Texas Press
Based on extensive research in previously unavailable sources, A Search for Solvency relates intriguing and often complicated issues of economic analysis and diplomatic history.
A Mexican Family Empire
The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867
University of Texas Press
A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America—the latifundio of the Sánchez Navarros.
Three Authors of Alienation
Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier
By M. Ian Adams
University of Texas Press
How three twentieth-century Latin American authors treat the themes of alienation, disgust with life, and the feeling of nothingness arising from the conditions of modern society.
Literary Diseases
Theme and Metaphor in the Italian Novel
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of the metaphorical and symbolic force of disease in modern Italian literature.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Parts Three and Four
University of Texas Press
These volumes contain ethnohistorical sources from the indigenous tradition, including prose and pictorial materials, a checklist of repositories, a title and synonymy index, and an annotated bibliography on native sources.
A Dream of Arcadia
Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905
By Lily Litvak
University of Texas Press
A Dream of Arcadia is the first work to explore Spain’s fertile and imaginative Art Nouveau.
The Concept of Academic Freedom
Edited by Edmund L. Pincoffs
University of Texas Press
Essays on the conceptual issues underlying the battle for academic freedom.
Energy and Structure
A Theory of Social Power
University of Texas Press
Richard N. Adams argues that social power affects humanity's approach to ecological, economic, and political problems, directing people to seek solutions which are often deceptively shortsighted.
Coevolution of Animals and Plants
Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973
Edited by Lawrence E. Gilbert and Peter H. Raven
University of Texas Press
The first book to focus on the dynamic aspects of animal-plant coevolution, covering as broadly as possible all the ways in which plants interact with animals.
Three Friends
Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb
University of Texas Press
A combination of biography and personal history that portrays not only the three friends, but the land they loved as well.
Studies in Upplandic Runography
University of Texas Press
A detailed treatment of the runic inscriptions from the province of Uppland, Sweden, where runic art reached a high point in A.D. 1200 and where runic inscriptions are most numerous.
Psychology of the Mexican
Culture and Personality
University of Texas Press
In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology.
Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution
University of Texas Press
Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution.
Markets in Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
A study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Forms of Modern British Fiction
Edited by Alan Warren Friedman
University of Texas Press
Six individualistic and strongminded critics delineate the "age of modernism" in British fiction.
Folklore Genres
Edited by Dan Ben-Amos
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Patron and Politician
Edited by William W. Kibler
University of Texas Press
Experts in five disciplines—history, art history, music, French and English literature—evaluate the influence of Eleanor and her court on history and the arts.
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