December 2001

6 x 9 in., 360 pp., 15 b&w photos
ISBN 0-292-79808-3
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-79809-1
$24.95, paperback

Behind the Mexican Mountains

By Robert Zingg
Edited by Howard Campbell, John Peterson, and David Carmichael

"This is one of the more fascinating travel works I have read on Mexico, and I have read many. It provides an important addition to the scanty literature on the Tarahumara and enriches the material available on this important group. I would also think this book would be fascinating to the general reader."
—Joseph W. Whitecotton, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma

In 1930, anthropologists Robert Zingg and Wendell Bennett spent nine months among the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico, one of the least acculturated indigenous societies in North America. Their fieldwork resulted in The Tarahumara: An Indian Tribe of Northern Mexico (1935), a classic ethnography still familiar to anthropologists. In addition to this formal work, Zingg also penned a personal, unvarnished travelogue of his sojourn among the Tarahumara. Unpublished in his lifetime, Behind the Mexican Mountains is now available in print for the first time.

August 2001

7 x 10 in., 512 pp., 130 figures
ISBN 0-292-70504-2
$70.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-70502-6
$34.95, paperback

For sale in the U.S. and Canada only

Skywatchers
A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
By Anthony F. Aveni

From reviews of the first edition:

". . . a clear, well-written introduction to archaeoastronomy [that] should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the subject." —Archaeology

". . . a splendid book, interesting both as science and as history." —Sky and Telescope

". . . a well-written, stimulating, and excellently illustrated book. Buy it or borrow it!" —Archaeoastronomy

Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico helped establish the field of archaeoastronomy, and it remains the standard introduction to this subject. Combining basic astronomy with archaeological and ethnological data, it presented a readable and entertaining synthesis of all that was known of ancient astronomy in the western hemisphere as of 1980.

In this revised edition, Anthony Aveni draws on his own and others' discoveries of the past twenty years to bring the Skywatchers story up to the present. He offers new data and interpretations in many areas, including:

• The study of Mesoamerican time and calendrical systems and their unprecedented continuity in contemporary Mesoamerican culture
• The connections between Precolumbian religion, astrology, and scientific, quantitative astronomy
• The relationship between Highland Mexico and the world of the Maya and the state of Pan-American scientific practices
• The use of personal computer software for computing astronomical data

October 2001
6 x 9 in., 384 pp., 8 tables
ISBN 0-292-75252-0
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-75255-5
$23.95, paperback

The Making of the Mexican Border
The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910

By Juan Mora-Torres

"This book is an important breakthrough. . . . It demonstrates how a regional economic elite emerged in an underdeveloped country and developed strategies that enabled it to interact with U.S. capitalists on its own terms. In doing this, the author presents a deep understanding of Mexican political, social, and economic history."
—John Mason Hart, Professor of History, University of Houston

The issues that dominate U.S.-Mexico border relations today—integration of economies, policing of boundaries, and the flow of workers from south to north and of capital from north to south—are not recent developments. In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores how these processes transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct economic, political, social, and cultural features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico.

April 2001

8 1/2 x 11 in., 190 pp., 16 b&w photos
ISBN 0-942041-21-6
$25.00, paperback

Before Guadalupe
The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature
By Louise M. Burkhart

The introduction of the Virgin Mary to the Nahuas (or Aztecs) of Central Mexico has often been linked with the origins of the Mexican devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. However, the Guadalupe devotion did not play a major role in indigenous life until after its foundation legend was published in Spanish in 1648 and in Nahuatl the following year. How, then, did Nahuas encounter, interpret, and appropriate Christianity's principal female figure? This anthology of Nahuatl-language texts offers the most in-depth examination to date of how Marianism was introduced into a Native American linguistic and cultural context. The texts, which include narratives, sermons, prayers, catechism lessons, hymns, and chants, date from the 1540s to the 1620s and represent Franciscan, Augustinian, Dominican, Jesuit, and Nahua authors. Far from fomenting some "syncretic" mixing of Mary with native goddess cults or presenting only rudimentary teachings, Catholic churchmen and Nahua scholars strove to adapt into Nahuatl a large part of the medieval cult of Mary, with its feast days, the rosary and other prayer traditions, and popular miracle legends. This was not simply an expansion of Spanish-Christian hegemony, for Nahuas who mastered the discourses and practices of Marian devotion controlled potent symbolic capital. Nahuatl texts and English translations are presented here in parallel columns, making the book useful to students of Nahuatl as well as to anyone interested in Marianism, evangelization, or Mexican religion. Extensive commentary on the texts traces their European background and illuminates their meanings and uses in the Mexican setting.

August 2001

6 x 9 in., 272 pp.
ISBN 0-292-71233-2
$21.95, paperback

Blacks in Colonial Veracruz
Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development
By Patrick J. Carroll

"Carroll's book is a solid, welcome addition to the scholarly literature on slavery and society during the colonial period and the Wars of Independence in Mexico and Latin America in general. . . . With its high level of ambitions and wide perspectives, the book is clearly a most valuable one." —Hispanic American Historical Review

"Carroll makes an important contribution to better understanding of the colonial experience and the reality of the past and present racial discrimination in Mexico. . . . His writing is most inspired when he describes and interprets the lives of colonial Afro-Veracruzanos and their role in Mexican society." —Geographical Reviews

Beginning with the Spanish conquest, Mexico has become a racially complex society intermixing Indian, Spanish, and African populations. Questions of race and ethnicity have fueled much political and scholarly debate, sometimes obscuring the experiences of particular groups, especially blacks. Blacks in Colonial Veracruz seeks to remedy this omission by studying the black experience in central Veracruz during virtually the entire colonial period.

The book probes the conditions that shaped the lives of inhabitants in Veracruz from the first European contact through the early formative period, colonial years, independence era, and the postindependence decade. While the primary focus is on blacks, Carroll relates their experience to that of Indians, Spaniards, and castas (racially hybrid people) to present a full picture of the interplay between local populations, the physical setting, and technological advances in the development of this important but little-studied region.

August 2001

6 x 9 in., 360 pp., 23 b&w illus., 4 line drawings, 2 maps, 9 tables
ISBN 0-292-72831-X
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-72832-8
$24.95, paperback

Zapotec Science
Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
By Roberto J. González

"This is a superb ethnographic work that can, and should, revolutionize a good deal of anthropology and the philosophy of science. . . . For anyone interested in Latin American traditional agriculture, it will be a 'must read.'" —Eugene Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ecologically sustainable fashion, although the premises that guide their agricultural practices would be considered erroneous by the standards of most agronomists and botanists in the United States and Europe. In this book, Roberto González convincingly argues that in fact Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science, which has had a reciprocally beneficial relationship with European and United States farming and food systems since the sixteenth century.

July 2001

6 x 9 in., 320 pp., 17 photos, 4 maps
ISBN 0-292-73148-5
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-73149-3
$22.95, paperback

Histories and Stories from Chiapas
Border Identities in Southern Mexico

By R. Aída Hernández Castillo
Foreword by Renato Rosaldo

"As a multi-layered history of power and identity in Chiapas, this study is without parallel. It offers a richly textured and well-documented history of how the Mam of Chiapas have constructed their own conceptions of identity and citizenship." —Virginia Garrard-Burnett, author of Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem

The 1994 Zapatista uprising of Chiapas' Maya peoples against the Mexican government shattered the state myth that indigenous groups have been successfully assimilated into the nation. In this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aída Hernández delves into the experience of a Maya group, the Mam, to analyze how Chiapas' indigenous peoples have in fact rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on "being Mexican" and participating in the construction of a Mexican national identity.

April 2001

6 x 9 in., 320 pp., 18 b&w photos
ISBN 0-292-77108-8
$45.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-77109-6
$22.95, paperback

Women Filmmakers in Mexico
The Country of Which We Dream
By Elissa J. Rashkin

"This is simply the most significant analysis of contemporary Mexican cinema to date, and it will make an incalculably important contribution to the field. . . . Rashkin's incisive analyses and brilliant juxtaposition of cultural and socio-political determinants will become the new standard that other scholars will seek to emulate." —Ana M. López, Associate Professor of Film Studies and Communication, Tulane University

Women filmmakers in Mexico were rare until the 1980s and 1990s, when women began to direct feature films in unprecedented numbers. Their films have won acclaim at home and abroad, and the filmmakers have become key figures in contemporary Mexican cinema. In this book, Elissa Rashkin documents how and why women filmmakers have achieved these successes, as she explores how the women's movement, film studies programs, governmental film policy, and the transformation of the intellectual sector since the 1960s have all affected women's filmmaking in Mexico.

After a historical overview of Mexican women's filmmaking from the 1930s onward, Rashkin focuses on the work of five contemporary directors—Marisa Sistach, Busi Cortés, Guita Schyfter, María Novaro, and Dana Rotberg. Portraying the filmmakers as intellectuals participating in the public life of the nation, Rashkin examines how these directors have addressed questions of national identity through their films, replacing the patriarchal images and stereotypes of the classic Mexican cinema with feminist visions of a democratic and tolerant society

April 2001
6 x 9 in., 280 pp., 44 maps
ISBN 0-292-77110-X
$45.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-77111-8
$22.95, paperback

La Gran Línea
Mapping the United States - Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857
By Paula Rebert

"No [other] book provides such a thorough and enjoyable history of the United States-Mexico boundary, which plays a significant role in peoples' lives every day." —Robert J. Czerniak, Professor and Chair of Geography, New Mexico State University

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, cost Mexico half its territory, while the United States gained land that became California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Because the new United States-Mexico border ran through territory that was still incompletely mapped, the treaty also called for government commissions from both nations to locate and mark the boundary on the ground. This book documents the accomplishments of both the U.S. and the Mexican Boundary Commissions that mapped the boundary between 1849 and 1857, as well as the fifty-four pairs of maps produced by their efforts and the ongoing importance of these historical maps in current boundary administration. Paula Rebert explores how, despite the efforts of both commissions to draw neutral, scientific maps, the actual maps that resulted from their efforts reflected the differing goals and outlooks of the two countries. She also traces how the differences between the U.S. and Mexican maps have had important consequences for the history of the boundary.

2001

6 x 9 in., 120 pp.
ISBN 0-292-77112-6
$12.95, paperback

Reflexiones 2000
New Directions in Mexican American Studies
Edited by Bárbara J. Robles

Established in 1970, the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is a national leader in teaching, research, and publications in Chicano studies. Reflexiones, its annual review, highlights work in progress by scholars affiliated with the center. It may also include work by other authors and artists who have offered presentations sponsored by the center. Reflexiones 2000 is the fourth volume in the series.

Consistent with the rich tradition of Mexican American studies, the contributors to Reflexiones 2000 hail from a variety of disciplines. Ricardo Ainslie (psychology) reflects on the psychological processes at work in the thick complexity of immigrant worlds and the anxieties that immigration stirs for all concerned. Luis Alvarez (history) argues that Anglo violence against Mexican and African American zoot suiters during the summer of 1943 was primarily a response to the zoot suiters' challenge to Anglo notions of race, gender, and nation. David Montejano (history) interweaves family and urban history in telling of his search for a veteran who in 1945 was brutally assaulted by a gang of Anglo teenagers. Federico Subervi-Vélez and María de los Angeles Flores-Gutiérrez (radio, television, and film) examine the representations of U.S. Latino and Latin American children in Hollywood cinema. Emilio Zamora (history) provides a retrospective look at his work as a historian of the Mexican American community. Other contributions include poetry by Teresa Palomo Acosta and reproductions of a recent series of Luis Guerra's sculptures and paintings.

April 2001

8 1/2 x 11 in., 450 pp., 195 figures, 110 tables
ISBN 0-942041-17-8
$45.00, paperback

Classic Period Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico
Diachronic Inferences from Residential Investigations
By Barbara L. Stark

This archaeological site report presents new insights into an important but poorly studied Mesoamerican culture—the Classic period of the Mexican Gulf Coast. Stark discusses her excavations at several sites in the Mixtequilla region, describes the deposits and artifacts encountered, and provides interpretations of the sites and their significance within a wider context. Her analysis of the ephemeral remains of perishable houses is innovative and contains one of the most sophisticated treatments of site formation processes yet carried out in Latin America. Particularly important is the identification of some of the earliest spindle whorls in Mesoamerica, leading to new views of the importance of cotton textiles in the changing economies of the Late Preclassic and Classic periods. Superb artifact illustrations, detailed descriptions, and an ample use of data tables make this a valuable reference work. Mesoamericanists will find much of interest in this book, as will readers interested in tropical lowland settlement patterns, household archaeology, and site formation processes.

March 2001

9 x 12 in., 344 pp., 143 duotones
ISBN 0-292-71611-7
$60.00, hardcover

Mexican Suite
A History of Photography in Mexico
By Olivier Debroise
Translated and Revised in Collaboration With the Author by Stella de Sá Rego

"This book will become the most complete and useful English-language text on its subject, and will be the essential starting point for anyone wishing to incorporate Mexican material into a photographic survey course, to add photography to a course on Mexican culture, or to do more research in the field."
--Martha A. Sandweiss, Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College

The history of photography in Mexico was a largely untold story until the 1994 publication of Olivier Debroise's Fuga Mexicana, un recorrido por la fotografía en México. Based on ten years' research in public and private photographic archives in Mexico, the United States, Guatemala, and Europe, Fuga Mexicana provided the first comprehensive survey of Mexican photography from the advent of the daguerreotype in 1839 to the present.

Now this benchmark publication is available in English as Mexican Suite. Olivier Debroise and Stella de Sá Rego have revised this edition to include more current material and explanatory notes for an audience less familiar with Mexican history. They have also eliminated some of the general history of photography and added more of the early history of photography in Mexico, as well as many new, previously unpublished images. The book is organized both chronologically and thematically, which allows viewer/readers to follow the evolution of major photographic genres and styles. Debroise also examines the role of photography in the development of modern Mexico and the influence of prominent foreign photographers such as Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In its totality, Mexican Suite constitutes an extended essay on Mexican culture as a whole and on how this culture has been read, interpreted, and imagined.

April 2001
6 x 9 in., 256 pp., 19 b&w photos, 2 line drawings, 2 maps, 8 figures
ISBN 0-292-73139-6
$40.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-73140-X
$18.95, paperback

Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico
By Ross Hassig

"Hassig's position is daring and potentially controversial and will be mandatory reading for those who deal with calendrical systems."
--Dr. Barbara J. Price, Columbia University

Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history.

Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones. His findings promise to revolutionize our understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history.

2000
8 1/2 x 11 in., pp., 87 halftones, 72 line drawings
ISBN 0-292-70876-9
$55.00, hardcover

Arvey Award, Association for Latin American Art

Stories in Red and Black
Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
By Elizabeth Hill Boone

"Elizabeth Boone has written a book that is remarkable in many ways, a work that historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians will realize they have been in need of once they have delved into it. In an unparalleled effort, she takes the reader through dozens of central Mexican and Oaxacan manuscripts, broadly speaking, 'the pictorial histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs,' according to her subtitle; most of them were made just before the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, or in the first few generations after. At the end, the reader not only knows what is in any given manuscript, according to Boone's reading, but also how to find one's own way through a manuscript."
—Hispanic American Historical Review

"Professor Boone has spent the better part of the last two decades at the forefront of our discipline. I am delighted to report that this book lives up to her high reputation and even surpasses it. . . . [It] is a tour de force."
—Stephen D. Houston, author of Hieroglyphs and History at Dos Pilas: Dynastic Politics of the Classic Maya

The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today.

This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos.

Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual "language" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

2000
6 x 9 in., 232 pp., 20 b&w photos, 10 tables, 3 maps
ISBN 0-292-71220-0
$40.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-71221-9
$17.95, paperback

Cooperation and Community
Economy and Society in Oaxaca
By Jeffrey H. Cohen

"This is a clearly argued, well-documented ethnography of social cooperation in the face of economic and social change in [a] Zapotec town."
—John M. Watanabe, author of Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World

In the villages and small towns of Oaxaca, Mexico, as in much of rural Latin America, cooperation among neighbors is essential for personal and community survival. It can take many forms, from godparenting to sponsoring fiestas, holding civic offices, or exchanging agricultural or other kinds of labor. This book examines the ways in which the people of Santa Ana del Valle practice these traditional cooperative and reciprocal relationships and also invent new relationships to respond to global forces of social and economic change at work within their community.

Based on fieldwork he conducted in this Zapotec-speaking community between 1992 and 1996, Jeffrey Cohen describes continuities in the Santañeros' practices of cooperation, as well as changes resulting from transnational migration, tourism, increasing educational opportunities, and improved communications. His nuanced portrayal of the benefits and burdens of cooperation is buttressed by the words of many villagers who explain why and how they participate-or not-in reciprocal family and community networks. This rich ethnographic material offers a working definition of community created in and through cooperative relationships.

1999
6 1/16 x 9 1/4 in., 384 pp., 25 b&w photos, 10 musical scores
ISBN 0-292-76586-X
$45.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-76587-8
$19.95, paperback

The Mexican American Orquesta
By Manuel Peña

"There is no comparable study to this one. Peña is without question the outstanding student of Mexican-American music. . . . He has written the definitive study of the orquesta."
-Mario T. García, Professor of History and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the American dance band for repertorial and stylistic cues, it forges a synthesis of the two. The ensemble emerges historically as a powerful artistic vehicle for the expression of what Manuel Peña calls the "dialectic of conflict." Grounded in ethnic and class conflict, this dialectic compels the orquesta and its upwardly mobile advocates to waver between acculturation and ethnic resistance. The musical result: a complex mesh of cultural elements-Mexican and American, working- and middle-class, traditional and contemporary.

In this book, Manuel Peña traces the evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s. Drawing on fifteen years of field research, he embeds the development of the orquesta within a historical-materialist matrix to achieve the optimal balance between description and interpretation. Rich in ethnographic detail and boldly analytical, his book is the first in-depth study of this important but neglected field of artistic culture.

1999
8 1/2 x 11 in., pp., 50 color, 25 b&w
ISBN 0-916677-43-5
$29.95, paperback

César A. Martínez
A Retrospective
By Jacinto Quirarte and Carey Rote
Introduction by William J. Chiego

César A. Martínez has long been recognized as one of the most important figures of the Chicano art movement in Texas and the United States. Deeply rooted in his native South Texas and its Mexican American culture, Martínez's work also reflects a broad knowledge of the history of art in both Europe and the Americas.

This book, which serves as the catalog for a retrospective at San Antonio's McNay Art Museum, surveys twenty-five years of the artist's work, from his first widely exhibited works of the mid-1970s through the present. All of the artist's principal thematic groups are included: his distinctive and brilliantly colorful barrio portraits, his highly textural South Texas landscapes, and his varied mestizo series. Media represented are paintings and constructions, watercolors, drawings, monotypes, woodcuts, and lithographs. The catalog includes an essay by Dr. Carey Rote and an interview with the artist by Dr. Jacinto Quirarte, plus a chronology, an exhibitions history, and a bibliography.

1999
6 x 9 in., 304 pp., 16 b&w photos; 10 tables
ISBN 0-292-77094-4
$45.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-77095-2
$19.95, paperback

¡Pobre Raza!
Violence, Justice, and Mobilization among México Lindo Immigrants, 1900-1936
By F. Arturo Rosales

"This is an exhaustive look at how Mexicans and Mexican Americans have fared under the U.S. judicial system. . . . No one [else] has undertaken this kind of study, and those that come near it do not measure up to the research and objectivity that this work incorporates. . . . A splendid contribution to Chicano history."
—Arnoldo De León, author of They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900

Fleeing the social and political turmoil spawned by the Mexican Revolution, massive numbers of Mexican immigrants entered the southwestern United States in the early decades of the twentieth century. But instead of finding refuge, many encountered harsh, anti-Mexican attitudes and violence from an Anglo population frightened by the influx of foreigners and angered by anti-American sentiments in Mexico.

This book examines the response of Mexican immigrants to Anglo American prejudice and violence early in the twentieth century. Drawing on archival sources from both sides of the border, Arturo Rosales traces the rise of "México Lindo" nationalism and the efforts of Mexican consuls to help poor Mexican immigrants defend themselves against abuses and flagrant civil rights violations by Anglo citizens, police, and the U.S. judicial system. This research illuminates a dark era in which civilian and police brutality, prejudice in the courtroom, and disproportionate arrest, conviction, and capital punishment rates too often characterized justice for Mexican Americans.