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Adding an important new chapter to pre-Columbian art history, this volume is the first to assemble and analyze a comprehensive body of ancient Andean architectural representations, as well as the first that explores their connections to full-scale pre-Hispanic ritual architecture.

With insightful analysis of films ranging from El Mariachi to Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, as well as a lively interview in which the filmmaker discusses his career, here is the first scholarly overview of the work of Robert Rodriguez, the most successfu

In the spirit of Carl Wilson's Let's Talk About Love, Madonnaland takes us on a revelatory road trip through the quirky hinterlands of celebrity and fandom and the quest to make music that matters in the face of relentless commercialism.

The memoir of a man's boyhood on a ranch in east Texas.

This collection of nearly all of Salvador Novo's Aztec-related writings,taken together, provides a delightful introduction to Novo's later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture.

Offers a nuanced, fully realized portrait of the first feminist elected to high office in America and one of the most fascinating women in US political history

Offering a pioneering interpretation of the "crowned nun" portrait, this book explores how visual culture contributed to local identity formation at a time when the colonial Church instituted major reforms that radically changed the face of New Spain's co

With over 250 images that span the astonishing range of his subjects and his evolution as a photographer, this is the first career retrospective of Eli Reed, one of America's leading contemporary photojournalists and the first African American member of Magnum Photos.

With paradigm-shifting readings of dozens of Westerns, from Gunfight at the O.K. Corral to No Country for Old Men, this book challenges us to rethink the genre as a supposed purveyor of conservative political and religious values.

A guide to useful Southwestern wild plants, including recipes, teas, spices, dyes, medicinal uses, poisonous plants, fibers, basketry, and industrial uses.All around us there are wild plants useful for food, medicine, and clothing, but most of us don't know how to identify or use them. Delena Tull amply supplies that knowledge in this book, which she has now expanded to more thoroughly address plants found in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as Texas.Extensively illustrated with black-and-white drawings and color photos, this book includes the following special features: Recipes for foods made from edible wild plants Wild teas and spices Wild plant dyes, with instructions for preparing the plants and dying wool, cotton, and other materials Instructions for preparing fibers for use in making baskets, textiles, and paper Information on wild plants used for making rubber, wax, oil, and soap Information on medicinal uses of plants Details on hay fever plants and plants that cause rashes Instructions for distinguishing edible from poisonous berries Detailed information on poisonous plants, including poison ivy, oak, and sumac, as well as herbal treatments for their rashes

An examination of the censorship of gender and heterosexuality-particularly female heterosexuality-in Bombay cinema.

Spotlighting three legends of American music-Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, The Flatlanders recounts the band's epic forty-year journey from a living room in Lubbock, Texas, to the release of their extraordinary long-lost demo, The Odess

This fascinating account examines how Abraham Zapruder's accidental footage of the Kennedy assassination has been transformed from documentary evidence to an aesthetic and cultural lodestone.

This study of Dario's poetry demonstrates that esoteric tradition is central to Modernism and that an understanding of this centrality clarifies both the nature of the movement and its relationship to earlier European literature.

One of Texas's leading cookbook authors presents 150 recipes that showcase the state's bounty of locally grown meats and produce, artisanal cheeses, and award-winning wines, along with fascinating stories of the people who are enriching the flavors of Texas.

A fresh look at ancient cultural history in the Americas and the Pacific basin.

In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias intimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena Garcia Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have sh

Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics.

This novel tells the story of a would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A first-of-its-kind anthology of English translations of the key texts of Greek surrealism from the 1930s through the 1960s.

A biography of renowned U.S. congressman, Texas state legislator, labor lawyer, and political organizer Bob Eckhardt.

A detailed critical analysis and historical contextualization of three Aztec pictorial histories.

An authoritative overview of water issues in Texas for a general readership.

A remarkable photo album of the buttons, bumper stickers, and myriad other items Texas politicians have used to put their names and messages before the public.

The English translation of the first comprehensive history of photography in Mexico.

A detailed study of the hand weaving and dyeing techniques of the indigenous Andean peoples of Ecuador.

This oral and pictorial history chronicles the lives and separate worlds of black and white communities in Jim Crow era Colorado County, TX. First settled by Stephen F. Austin's colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agrarian until late in the twentieth century, it was a cotton-growing region whose population was evenly divided between blacks and whites. These life-long neighbors led separate and unequal lives, memories of which still linger today. To preserve those memories, Patsy Cravens began interviewing and photographing the older residents of Colorado County in the 1980s. In this book, Cravens presents photographs and recollections of the last generation, black and white, who grew up in the era of Jim Crow segregation. And they have engrossing stories to tell. They recall grinding poverty and rollicking fun in the Great Depression, losing crops and livestock to floods, working for the WPA, romances gone wrong and love gone right, dirty dancing, church and faith, sharecropping, quilting, raising children, racism and bigotry, and even the horrific lynching of two African American teenagers in 1935. These stories reveal an amazing resiliency and generosity of spirit, despite the hardships that have filled most of their lives. They also capture a now lost rural way of life that was once common across the South.

Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves.

UT's most beloved coach tells his life story in his own words--includes 55 photos, many never before published.

With innovative visual analysis of TV news coverage, documentaries such as Trouble the Water and When the Levees Broke, and the HBO series Treme, this book investigates how media representations both shaped and contested collective memories of Katrina.