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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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Given Guatemala's record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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W. Eugene Smith, an icon in the field of twentieth-century photography, is best known as the master of the humanistic photographic essay. Smith's most expressive and frequently reproduced images-World War II combat, the country doctor ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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The Virgin of Guadalupe is famously migratory, traversing continents and crossing and recrossing oceans. Guadalupe's earliest cult originated in medieval Iberia, where Our Lady of Guadalupe from Extremadura, Spain, played a significant role in the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a site of familial and political significance. Through extensive archival research, she elucidates ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country's least powerful citizens-impoverished women living in Santiago's shantytowns-spotlighted the government's failings and ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
pvp.85,89 €
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Located within the deep tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Maya site of Bonampak is home to the most complete and magnificent mural program of the ancient Americas. In three rooms, a pageant of rulership ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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As Spaniards built colonies in the New World, men of the cloth saw within ancient ruins and inhabited native towns great potential for easing the colonization effort. In the Yucatan, which is the locus of ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
pvp.73,66 €
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The Codex Borgia, a masterpiece that predates the Spanish conquest of central Mexico, records almanacs used in divination and astronomy. Within its beautifully painted screenfold pages is a section (pages 29-46) that shows a sequence ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
pvp.60,44 €
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A path-finding analysis of the vast colonial "dance archive" that conclusively demonstrates that dance played a crucial role in the European colonization of the Americas. From Christopher Columbus to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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Like the haggadah, the traditional 'telling' of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
pvp.70,00 €
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While there are numerous film studies that focus on one particular grouping of films'by nationality, by era, or by technique'here is the first single volume that incorporates all of the above, offering a broad overview ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
pvp.75,56 €
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The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Since mid-2006, Maurice Sherif has been photographing segments of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and questioning how the United States-which sees itself as a champion of law, democracy, and human rights-came to engage in such a ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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Every society builds, and many, if not all, utilize architectural structures as markers to define place, patron, or experience. Often we consider these architectural markers as "monuments" or "monumental" buildings. Ancient Rome, in particular, is ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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In the tradition of nineteenth-century photograms, this collection of work by Kate Breakey presents the animals, plants, and insects of the American Southwest with scientific precision and breathtaking loveliness
Las sombras, the shadows, are literally ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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While much attention has been paid to Chicano painting, Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection is one of the first books about the vibrant and exciting prints created by American artists ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
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The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2012)
pvp.67,34 €
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Oaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit this trade in "fakes" that ...