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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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This book records a history of color use among the ancient Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan Peninsula from prehistoric times, perhaps as early as the second or third millennium BC, until the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
pvp.59,56 €
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In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that openly celebrates diverse experiences. Charting this transformation, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture looks ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to the creation of gendered colonial relations in the Californias. She explores the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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An established American artist with a growing international reputation, Lance Letscher transforms found paper into works of art that are mysteriously evocative, often playful, and graphically beautiful. Letscher precisely cuts and recombines scraps of old ...
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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In Rio de Janeiro, the spiritual home of world football, and Buenos Aires, where a popular soccer club president was recently elected mayor, the game is an integral part of national identity. Using the football ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
pvp.103,54 €
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Challuabamba (chi-wa-bamba)'now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador'has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
pvp.25,32 €
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The southern frontier is one of the most emotionally charged zones in the United States, second only to its historical predecessor and partner, the western frontier. Though they span many genres, border films share common ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
pvp.75,97 €
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The everyday lives of indigenous and Spanish families in the countryside, a previously under-explored segment of Mexican cultural history, are now illuminated through the vivid narratives presented in Hijos del Pueblo (offspring of the village). ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2009)
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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. ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2008)
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Renowned for their monumental architecture and rich visual culture, the Moche inhabited the north coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-800). Archaeological discoveries over the past century and the dissemination of Moche ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2008)
pvp.97,67 €
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This book explores the life and times of Ecuador's most controversial politician within the broader context of the new political history, addressing five major themes of nineteenth-century Latin American history: the creation of political networks, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2008)
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Created in Tepechpan, a relatively minor Aztec city in Central Mexico, the Tira de Tepechpan records important events in the city's history from 1298 through 1596. Most of the history is presented pictographically. A line ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2008)
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She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simón Bolívar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in her own right. Yet authors generally have chosen either to romanticize Manuela ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2008)
pvp.49,57 €
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Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons.
In ...