Books from University of Texas Press
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Violence and Naming: On Mexico and the Promise of Literature
By David E. JohnsonIn “The Jew or Patriarchy (or Worse),” Brett Levinson also addresses the problem of communication. While it is difficult to credit Levinson's claim that “the name, the signifier, lack, signification, are not essential, ...
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Razabilly: Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene
By Nicholas F. CentinoBelinda White, “Michelle Obama Wears Vintage, Sparks Panic,” Telegraph, December 17, 2010, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/michelle-obama /8210293/Michelle- Obama- wears- vintage- sparks- panic.html. 22.
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Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua
By Claudia RuedaStudents of Revolution thus highlights the aggressive young dissenters who became the vanguard of the opposition.
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The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru
By Claudia BrossederValla- dolid: Joseph de Rueda, 1695. Espinoza Soriano, Waldemar. “Colonias de mitmas multiples en Abancay, siglos XV y XVI.” Revista del Museo Nacional 39 (1973): 225–99. ———. “Geografía histórica de Huamachuco.
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More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain
By William Roger Louis1919–40' John Hargreaves (Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History, Aberdeen University), 'God's Advocate: Lewis Namier and the History of Modern Europe' Round Table Discussion on Robert Harris's Fatherland. Henry Dietz (Government) ...
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Crucifixion by Power: Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944–1966
By Richard Newbold AdamsThe result of many years of research in Guatemala, this volume utilizes the author's fieldwork as well as that of his colleagues and students to construct a set of concepts explaining how Guatemala reached the difficult circumstances in ...
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Texas Images & Visions
By William H. Goetzmann, Becky Duval ReeseTexas Images & Visions
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Ethnographic Film: Revised Edition
By Karl G. Heider... the eighth edition of Films for Anthropological Teaching ), Charles and Marjorie Goodwin, James Hoesterey, and, most recently, Kim Cavanagh, Bridget McDonnell, Meredith Badinelli, and Paul Heider (who helped with computer problems).
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Historic Native Peoples of Texas
By William C. FosterForeword to Bison Hunting at Cooper Site: Where Lightning Bolts Drew Thundering Herds, by Leland C. Bement. Norman: University of Oklahoma ... Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, ...
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Panama Odyssey
By William J. JordenMoss' third choice was Betsy Frawley, a bright and talented woman who had learned the political ropes working in Ted Kennedy's campaign in Massachusetts and later on a congressional staff. She had recently joined State's congressional ...
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Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture
By Andrew Finegold2017 Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire. Oakland:University of California Press. Robertson, Janice Lynn 2017 “Decolonizing Aztec Picture-Writing.” In Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives, ed.
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Prehistory of the Rustler Hills: Granado Cave
By Donny L. Hamilton, John R. BrattenPrepared by Bureau of Economic Geology , University of Texas , Austin . Fowler , D. D. , and C. S. Fowler , eds . 1971. Anthropology of the Numa : John Wesley Powell's Manuscripts on the Numic Peoples of Western North America ...
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Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World
By George E. Lankford, F. Kent Reilly, James F. Garberbetween 1876 and 1913, J. Owen Dorsey was given a unique cosmological chart by William Matthews (Dorsey 1885:377–378). This document (Fig. 2.1b), presented to Dorsey in January 1883 and known only from its publication by Dorsey (1885), ...
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Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography
By F. Kent Reilly, James F. Garber, IIIJ. Owen Dorsey (jaf 2 (1889):190) tells us: ''Myths must not be told during the day, nor in summer, as violation of this rule will cause snakes to come.'' (Chamberlain 1900) A century later the taboo still exists among the Ojibwa, ...
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Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition
By John SepichJohn G. Bourke, On the Border with Crook Dobie's bibliography on scalp hunting lists Bourke's book, which recollects his years in the army under General George Crook. But more interesting than Boutke's brief mention of Glanton (117-118) ...
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Real Role Models: Successful African Americans Beyond Pop Culture
By Joah Spearman, Jr., Louis HarrisonInitially, Pitts fancied himself a poet who would be following in the footsteps of Langston Hughes; he published his first poem at fourteen in the Los Angeles Sentinel. “There's nothing like seeing your name in print for the first time ...
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The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
By William K. BlackExplores the corrupt strategies of CEOs and CFOs, in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries, that are used to defraud companies for their personal gain.
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Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico
By Daniel NemserFor a detailed analysis of the centrality of enclosure practices to the project of British imperial botany, see Drayton, Nature's Government. 46. Cervantes de Salazar, Dialogi, 268v; Cervantes de Salazar, Life in the Imperial and Loyal ...
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Mount Sinai
By Joseph J. HobbsAmid the high mountains of Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula stands Jebel Musa, "Mount Moses," revered by most Christians and Muslims as Mount Sinai. (Jewish tradition holds that Mount Sinai should remain terra incognita, unlocated, and does ...
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The Birds of South America: Volume 1: The Oscine Passerines
By Robert S. Ridgely, Tudor GuyThe remaining volumes of The Birds of South America will be: Volume III: The Nonpasserines (Landbirds) Volume IV: The Nonpasserines (Waterbirds) No release date has been set for the remaining volumes.