University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Amazonia in the Anthropocene
People, Soils, Plants, Forests
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point...
Andean Lives
Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán were runakuna, a Quechua word that means "people" and refers to the millions of indigenous inhabitants neglected, reviled, and silenced by the dominant society in Peru and other Andean countries. For Gregorio and Asunta, however, that silence...
by Ann Pollard Rowe, Lynn A. Meisch
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes—women's woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt hats—instantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars...
Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes
Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught...
by Gay Robins
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The painted and relief-cut walls of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record an amazing continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3,000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems unchanging, but this appearance is deceptive. In this work, Gay Robins offers convincing evidence, based on...
Indian Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction
First Nations' Voices Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
According to an early 1990s study, 95 percent of what college students know about Native Americans was acquired through the media, leading to widespread misunderstandings of First Nations peoples. Sierra Adare contends that negative "Indian" stereotypes do physical, mental, emotional, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the "Arab...
Electronic Tribes
The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. The contributors to this book argue that these...
My Mexico
A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
By universal acclaim, Diana Kennedy is the world’s authority on the authentic cuisines of Mexico. For decades, she has traveled the length and breadth of the country, seeking out the home cooks, local ingredients, and traditional recipes that make Mexican cuisines some of the most varied and flavorful...
Nothing Fancy
Recipes and Recollections of Soul-Satisfying Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Diana Kennedy is the world's preeminent authority on authentic Mexican cooking and one of its best-known food writers. Renowned for her uncompromising insistence on using the correct local ingredients and preparation techniques, she has taught generations of cooks how to prepare traditional dishes...
Captivity Beyond Prisons
Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full-length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization...
Women and Social Movements in Latin America
Power from Below
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing,...
North Africa, Revised Edition
A History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically underestimated. In a book that may lead scholars to reimagine the concept of Western civilization, incorporating...
Argentina's "Dirty War"
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Argentines ask how their ultracivilized country, reputedly the most European in Latin America, could have relapsed into near-barbarism in the 1970s. This enlightening study seeks to answer that question by reviewing the underlying political events and intellectual foundations of the "dirty war" (1975–1978)...