University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Yaxchilan
The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever....
The Huarochiri Manuscript
A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochir Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-defining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas. This translation by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste marks the first time the Huarochir Manuscript...
To Be Like Gods
Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance...
by Elizabeth Hill Boone
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's...
Images from the Underworld
Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding...
Brown on Brown
Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that...
With Her Machete in Her Hand
Reading Chicana Lesbians
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have...
Words of Passage
National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives...
Reading Chican@ Like a Queer
The De-Mastery of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A race-based oppositional paradigm has informed Chicano studies since its emergence. In this work, Sandra K. Soto replaces that paradigm with a less didactic, more flexible framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. Through rereadings...
The Wounded Heart
Writing on Cherríe Moraga
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer Cherre Moraga has been extremely influential in current debates on culture and identity as an ongoing, open-ended process. Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga's writing where race, gender, class,...
From Bananas to Buttocks
The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" relate, if at all, to...
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across a diverse range of Latina authors. Within this range, calls for a coalition are clear, but questions...
Technophobia!
Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine; later, human beings will completely...
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often portrayed families in trouble, with parents and children in conflict over...