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Paul Friedrich looks closely at the strong men of the Tarascan Indian village of Naranja: their leadership, friendship, kinship, and violent local politics (over a time depth of one generation), and ways to understand such phenomena.

In this culmination of over twenty years of research, the author employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.

These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, chronicle Goyen's long participation in the writing life and offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America.

In this volume, nine classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history.

An exploration of how English words are translated.

A history of Texas-Mexican conflict during 1842, from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande.

Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945 is an objective and remarkably comprehensive account of the Brazilian Communist Party's struggle to survive repression under the regime of Vargas.

This volume reports in detail how a particular portion of the American wilderness developed into a settled farming community.

This tomb and its offerings unearthed at Pashash, in the northern Andes, provide new perspectives on the cultural meaning of Andean funerary treasure.

An investigation into why some architects become famous while other equally talented ones do not.

This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.

Bauer synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca social groups of the Cusco region, their land holdings, and the positions of the shrines to offer a comprehensive, empirical description of the ceque system.

A synthesis of the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing insights into the nature of language change in general, into the social and historical contexts of language change, and into the cultural conditioning of linguis

This book provides a full description of 103 Moche Valley burials, spanning a period of more than 3,500 years.

In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors' careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political r

A study of two western American states with different approaches to land conservation.

A collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas.

An authoritative study of the administrative, social, and economic structure of Afghanistan at the beginning of the twentieth century. Government and Society in Afghanistan covers a decisive stage in the country's history. The period coveredthe reign of the ';Iron' Amir Rahman Khanwas in many ways the beginning of modern Afghanistan as a cohesive nation. It was under the Amir that its borders were established, its internal unification completed, and the modern concept of nationhood implanted. Hsan Kawun Kakar considers both the internal and the external forces that influenced Afghanistan's development. Thus, modernization, centralization, and nationalization are seen as both defensive reactions to European imperialism and a necessary step toward capital formation and industrialization. The first part of the book covers the government of the Amir, from the personality of the ruler to a comprehensive overview of taxation and local government. The second part views these economic and social institutions from the perspective of the major segments of the populaceincluding nomads, townsmen, tribes, women, slaves, landowners, mullahs, merchants, and others.

A study of medieval southern French and Catalan society.

This unique collection of essays dedicated to the presentation of American tradition broadens our understanding of the regional differences and ethnic folkways that color American life.

This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas.

In this first comprehensive treatment of presidential management of such policy for any presidency, the authors focus on four tasks: developing and maintaining an information and decision-making system; coordination of policies in different macroeconomic

A comprehensive analysis of Argentina's Socialist Party's origins, its development, and its actions during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930.

Reid's diary records the details of the sessions of the Joint Peace Commission of Paris from September through a large part of December of 1898.

A collection of papers on Baroque opera, discussing the operatic works of Vivaldi, Handel, and other Baroque composers as well as the characteristics of the genre.

This book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists.

Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

An English translation of the greatest work of a man regarded by many as Mexico's most important novelist.