University of Texas Press Forlag
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Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World, an award-winning sociologist and his students explore the lives of people working at the bottom of the social order in one of America’s most economically segregated cities.
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Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)With vivid, firsthand accounts that illuminate the immediate, mid-range, and long-term effects of an unmitigated disaster, this book describes how the residents of two African American neighborhoods have experienced Katrina and the long road to recovery.
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Songs That Make the Road Dance: Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This major collection of courting and fertility songs documents a nearly lost element of highland Maya ritual life, revealing significant remnants of the ancient Maya belief system in songs that date back to the early colonial era.
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Is This America?: Katrina As Cultural Trauma (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Using cultural trauma theory, this book explores how a wide range of media and popular culture producers have challenged the meaning of Katrina, in which the massive failure of government officials to uphold the American social contract exposed the founda
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On the Lips of Others: Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examining how the name and portrait of Moteuczoma II were represented in Aztec monuments and colonial manuscripts, this richly interdisciplinary study illuminates the creation of fame and the politics of personhood and portraiture in the Aztec and colonia
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Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands: Gender, Age, Memory, and Place (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Using new archaeological data from four major cities of the Classic Maya world, this book explores how gender, age, familial and community memories, and the experience of living in an urban setting interacted to form social identities.
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Science Among the Ottomans: The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The first book on the topic in English in over sixty years, Science among the Ottomans contends that, contrary to the generally accepted belief that the Ottomans lost interest in science, science was a valued, dynamic, and sustaining force throughout the
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The Lean Lands (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A novel about the impact of modern technology and ideas on a few isolated, tradition-bound hamlets in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
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The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Taking a bottom-up approach through interviews with numerous industry workers, this book deepens our understanding of the intricate processes behind the creation of the LGBT representations that appear on television.
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Misinformation and Mass Audiences (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Addressing one of the most important but least-reported aspects of mass communication, this timely volume considers both the perils of misinformation and the possibilities for remedying its detrimental effects.
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Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Our best-selling field guide has been completely reorganized by flower colors for easier use—every wildflower is presented with a large color photo and an identifying description.
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The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In this lively cultural history, the journalist Margaret Guroff reveals how the bicycle has transformed American society, from making us mobile to empowering people in all avenues of life.
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