University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
by Josiah H. Combs
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
“The spirit of balladry is not dead, but slowly dying. The instincts, sentiments, and feelings which it represents are indeed as immortal as romance itself, but their mode of expression, the folksong, is fighting with its back to the wall, with the odds against it in our introspective age.” This...
Viewpoints
Visual Anthropologists at Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however,...
Struggle in the Andes
Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A massive land-seizure movement first erupted in Peru in 1958 and spread across the Andean highlands in 1963–1964. Several hundred peasant communities in the Peruvian Andes occupied neighboring haciendas in an attempt to retake lands they felt had been stolen from them over the years. Hacienda peasants...
Taming the Wild Mushroom
A Culinary Guide to Market Foraging
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Death and the Emperor
Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Precolumbian times to the present. Originally published in 1991 by Garland Publishing, the book...
Amazonian Linguistics
Studies in Lowland South American Languages
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Lowland South American languages have been among the least studied ln the world. Consequently, their previous contribution to linguistic theory and language universals has been small. However, as this volume demonstrates, tremendous diversity and significance are found in the languages of this region....
Framing a Lost City
Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation...
Organizing Strangers
Poor Families in Guatemala City
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
El derecho en español
terminología y habilidades jurídicas para un ejercicio legal exitoso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2014
El español es el segundo idioma más hablado en el mundo. Un número creciente de personas en los Estados Unidos y en otros países son conocedores de este idioma y además lo utilizan profesionalmente en el ámbito jurídico. No obstante, a muchos de ellos les gustaría mejorar su comprensión idiomática...
No Gifts from Chance
A Biography of Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Country Music USA
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as...
by Llerena Friend
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
This biography of Sam Houston goes beyond the romantic frontier life of the "buckskin hero from Tennessee" to examine seriously his role as an American statesman.