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Latin American Politics
A Theoretical Approach
University of Texas Press
Di Tella draws on the work of Montesquieu, Burke, Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim in formulating his explanatory theories, which are then tested against crucial events in Latin American history, from the rebellions of the eighteenth century to the
Imagining Literacy
Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature
University of Texas Press
An examination of the biases inherent in the idea of "cultural literacy".
Here, Our Culture Is Hard
Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize
University of Texas Press
How Mayan women endure, escape, and avoid abuse.
Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus
University of Texas Press
The surviving speeches of three orators from the end of the classical period.
Technology and Place
Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm
By Steven A. Moore; Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
University of Texas Press
In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrial
Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook
University of Texas Press
An examination of the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings.
Histories and Stories from Chiapas
Border Identities in Southern Mexico
University of Texas Press
In this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aída Hernández delves into the experience of a Maya group, the Mam, to analyze how Chiapas’s indigenous peoples have in fact rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on "being Me
Consuming Grief
Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of mortuary cannibalism in a South American indigenous culture.
Amigas
Letters of Friendship and Exile
University of Texas Press
This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their curre
Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
By Brian S. Bauer and Charles Stanish
University of Texas Press
The development of an Inca religious pilgrimage tradition.
ReMembering Cuba
Legacy of a Diaspora
University of Texas Press
Through narratives, interviews, creative writings, letters, journal entries, recipes, photographs, and paintings, Cubans from various waves of the migration and their descendants piece together a complex mosaic of the exile experience and diasporic identi
Reel Knockouts
Violent Women in Film
Edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King
University of Texas Press
In the first book-length study of violent women in movies, Reel Knockouts makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from top-grossing to direct-to-video, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks.
Greek and Roman Comedy
Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays
Edited by Shawn O'Bryhim; Translated by George Fredric Franko, Timothy J. Moore, Shawn O'Bryhim, and S. Douglas Olson
University of Texas Press
Four plays that introduce ancient comedy to a modern audience.
Ancient Egyptian Literature
An Anthology
Translated by John L. Foster
University of Texas Press
Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still being recited around hearth fires in ancient Greece and Israel; this anthology offers an extensive sampling
Lourdes Portillo
The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films
Edited by Rosa Linda Fregoso
University of Texas Press
The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes typically hidden from view.
Blacks in Colonial Veracruz
Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development
University of Texas Press
The book probes the conditions that shaped the lives of inhabitants in Veracruz from the first European contact through the early formative period, colonial years, independence era, and the postindependence decade.
Women Filmmakers in Mexico
The Country of Which We Dream
University of Texas Press
How and why women filmmakers became key figures in contemporary Mexican cinema.
Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico
By Ross Hassig
University of Texas Press
A bold new look at the Aztec conception of time.
The Path to a Modern South
Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression
University of Texas Press
The forces that turned Northeast Texas from a poverty-stricken region into a more economically prosperous area.
Of Wonders and Wise Men
Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876
University of Texas Press
Religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876.
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