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Pulltrouser Swamp
Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize
Edited by B. L. Turner and Peter D. Harrison
University of Texas Press
Pulltrouser Swamp conclusively demonstrates the existence of hydraulic, raised-field agriculture in the Maya lowlands between 150 B.C. and A.D. 850.
Rubén Darío and the Romantic Search for Unity
The Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition
University of Texas Press
This study of Darío's poetry demonstrates that esoteric tradition is central to Modernism and that an understanding of this centrality clarifies both the nature of the movement and its relationship to earlier European literature.
An Epoch of Miracles
Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya
Translated by Allan F. Burns
University of Texas Press
A wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya.
Ranchero Revolt
The Mexican Revolution in Guerrero
By Ian Jacobs
University of Texas Press
In this book Ian Jacobs challenges the populist interpretation of the Mexican Revolution by exploring the crucial role played by the rural middle class—rancheros—in the organization and final victory of the Revolution.
Carlos Fuentes
A Critical View
Edited by Robert Brody and Charles Rossman
University of Texas Press
Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer’s work.
The Road to OPEC
United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976
University of Texas Press
The Road to OPEC is the story of the fiery debates among U.S. oil companies, the Department of State, and the Venezuelan government over oil policies—clashes that led Venezuela to establish OPEC and to nationalize U.S.-owned properties.
The CIA in Guatemala
The Foreign Policy of Intervention
University of Texas Press
Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America.
The Ancient Future of the Itza
The book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin
Translated by Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
A literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known manuscripts in Yucatecan Maya on ritual and history.
Origins of Pre-Columbian Art
University of Texas Press
A fresh look at ancient cultural history in the Americas and the Pacific basin.
The Politics of Population in Brazil
Elite Ambivalence and Public Demand
By Peter McDonough and Amaury DeSouza
University of Texas Press
This book examines the attitudes toward population planning of Brazilian government officials and other elites—bishops, politicians, labor leaders, and business owners—in comparison with mass public opinion.
Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850–1930
By E. Bradford Burns and Thomas E. Skidmore; Edited by Virginia Bernhard; Introduction by Richard Graham
University of Texas Press
This volume explores the interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America through the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians.
History of the Inca Empire
An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions
By Father Bernabe Cobo; Translated by Roland Hamilton
University of Texas Press
A seventeenth-century account of Inca history and customs.
Ancient Panama
Chiefs in Search of Power
University of Texas Press
This book adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at thetime of the European conquest.
Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Edited by Norman Hammond and Gordon R. Willey
University of Texas Press
The essays here offer a conspectus of late-twentieth century Maya research and a series of case histories of the work of some of the leading scholars in the field.
Brazil and the Quiet Intervention, 1964
University of Texas Press
Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and Kennedy presidential libraries, Phyllis Parker unravels the events of the 1964 Goulart coup in fascinating detail.
Political Attitudes in Venezuela
Societal Cleavages and Political Opinion
By Enrique A. Baloyra and John D. Martz
University of Texas Press
A benchmark study of voter attitudes in a Latin American country.
The Fifth Sun
Aztec Gods, Aztec World
By Burr Cartwright Brundage; Illustrated by Roy E. Anderson
University of Texas Press
A study of Aztec religion and mythology.
German Buenos Aires, 1900–1933
Social Change and Cultural Crisis
University of Texas Press
This study of the German community of early twentieth century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience.
The Devil's Church and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism.
Anthropology and History in Yucatán
Edited by Grant D. Jones
University of Texas Press
A collection of ten essays that offer interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s.
The Siren and the Seashell
And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry
University of Texas Press
A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.
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.
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.
The Yanoama Indians
A Cultural Geography
University of Texas Press
This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.
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 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.
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.
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