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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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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, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, Wild Tongues is an ambitious, extensive examination of social order in Mexican and Chicana/o cultural ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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In January 1995, fighting broke out between Ecuadorian and Peruvian military forces in a remote section of the Amazon. It took more than three years and the interplay of multiple actors and factors to achieve ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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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 ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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These Secessionist art prints, acquired by Frank Lloyd Wright and his lover Mamah Borthwick Cheney during their infamous flight to Europe in 1909-1910, reveal a new dimension of the architect's taste and aesthetic preferences. This ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 is among the world's most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and ...
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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American architect Hank Schubart was regarded as a genius for finding the perfect site for a house and for integrating its design into the natural setting, so that his houses appear to be as native ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Ancient Maya cities draw travelers from all over the world to Mexico's Yucatán peninsula. But while tales of the "Maya collapse" give an air of mystery to the ruins, modern Maya still live in communities ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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In this spectacular collection of panoramic images, award-winning photographer Macduff Everton proves why Chile's Last Hope Province, in the extreme southern corner of Patagonia, is a landscape that kindles the dreams of world travelers. Patagonia, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto presents the excavation of the Late Roman farmhouse at San Biagio. Located near the site of an ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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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, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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This volume is the first scientific publication of the results of a systematic, intensive archaeological field survey conducted in the agricultural territory (chora) of a Greek colony in Southern Italy. Over twenty years, nearly six ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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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 ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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Hugo Brehme created an idyllic vision of Mexico that influenced photography, film, and literature for a hundred years. His beautifully composed, timeless images of lo mexicano--cacti and pyramids, Indian children and marketplaces, colonial buildings and ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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Shamanism-the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge-has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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Since mid-2006, Maurice Sherif has been photographing segments of the U.S.-Mexico border wall from the American side and questioning how the United States-which sees itself as a champion of law, democracy, and human rights-came to ...