University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
The Bear and His Sons
Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
All the world over, people tell stories to express their deepest feelings about such things as what makes a "real" man or woman; what true love, courage, or any other virtue is; what the proper relationships are between people. Often groups of people widely separated by space or time will...
Interpreting Environments
Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Digital technology and the Internet have revolutionized film criticism, programming, and preservation in deeply paradoxical ways. The Internet allows almost everyone to participate in critical discourse, but many print publications and salaried positions for professional film critics have been eliminated....
American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court
The Masking of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
"Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith," wrote Felix S. Cohen, an early expert in Indian legal...
Heretics and Hellraisers
Women Contributors to The Masses, 1911-1917
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The Masses was the most dynamic and influential left-wing magazine of the early twentieth century, a touchstone for understanding radical thought and social movements in the United States during that era. As a magazine that supported feminist issues, it played a crucial role in shaping public discourse...
Flintknapping
Making and Understanding Stone Tools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this new guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written from the archaeological perspective...
Race on the QT
Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Known for their violence and prolific profanity, including free use of the n-word, the films of Quentin Tarantino, like the director himself, chronically blurt out in polite company what is extremely problematic even when deliberated in private. Consequently, there is an uncomfortable and often awkward...
Folklore by the Fireside
Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this custom—from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put...
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?
Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
"Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish?" This was Chiara Francesca Ferrari's reaction when she learned that Drescher's character on the television sitcom The Nanny was meant to be a portrayal of a stereotypical Jewish-American princess. Ferrari had only seen the Italian version of the show, in which...
by Laura Robson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Drawing on a rich base of British archival materials, Arabic periodicals, and secondary sources, Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine brings to light the ways in which the British colonial state in Palestine exacerbated sectarianism. By transforming Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religious...
Latino Images in Film
Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady—these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for...
Feeding the City
From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave...
Species at Risk
Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Protecting endangered species of animals and plants is a goal that almost everyone supports in principle—but in practice private landowners have often opposed the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, which, they argue, unfairly limits their right to profit from their property. To encourage...
The Red Caddy
Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir,...