University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Song of the Heart
Selected Poems by Ramón López Velarde
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his best-known "La suave Patria" ("Sweet Land"). This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers...
by Cordia Sloan Duke, Joe B. Frantz
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. Their forthright, yet picturesque, discussion of ranching hardships and dangers dissipates Hollywood...
by William N. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture of rich diversity and beauty. Vestiges of thousands of these dwellings and villages still remain, in locations ranging from...
The Prague School
Selected Writings, 1929-1946
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity...
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried
The Portable Lansdale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Master of mojo storytelling, spinner of over-the-top yarns of horror, suspense, humor, mystery, science fiction, and even the Old West, Joe R. Lansdale has attracted a wide and enthusiastic following. His genre-defying work has brought him numerous awards, including the Grand Master of Horror from...
The Color of Loss
An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has been imprinted in our collective visual memory by thousands of images in the media and books of dramatic photographs by Robert Polidori, Larry Towell, Chris Jordan, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, and others. New Orleanians want the world to see and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Over a mere three decades, the video game has become the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching movies or even television. The release of new games or game-playing equipment, such as the PlayStation...
by Elizabeth P. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings...
The Teotihuacan Trinity
The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the avenue are...
In the Maw of the Earth Monster
Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful...
Cosmos, Self, and History in Baniwa Religion
For Those Unborn
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Baniwa Indians of the Northwest Amazon have engaged in millenarian movements since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. The defining characteristic of these movements is usually a prophecy of the end of this present world and the restoration of the primordial, utopian world of creation....
Renewing the Maya World
Expressive Culture in a Highland Town
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradías perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography,...
Rituals of Respect
The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
"In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize that respect for others is the central and most significant element of all thought and action," observes Inge Bolin. "Without respect, no society, no civilization, can flourish for long. Without respect, humanity...
The Shaman’s Mirror
Visionary Art of the Huichol
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of their culture—the hallucinogenic peyote...