university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007
university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007
... ad- vantage of the sweep of the American West, situating the personal develop- ment of the characters into the visual iconography of the American cine - ma and history. In Thelma & Louise: The ... Thelma & Louise in- troduced audiences to another star, Brad Pitt. Cindy Fuchs examines the meaning of the making of Brad Pitt, first by Thelma &...
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university of texas press death and the classic maya kings jan 2009
... is the source of the modern race of humans, the people of corn. e idea that the Classic Maya, like their colonial and modern descendants, saw themselves as “people of corn” is an important ... period,” the soul was home- less and an object of dread, unable to enter the afterlife. e feast, he observed, marked the end of this period and the celebration...
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university of texas press negotiating for the past archaeology nationalism and diplomacy in the middle east 1919-1941 jul 2007
... with much fanfare into the National Academy of Science in 1920 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1933. Most important, the Americans had money, and the Europeans, suf- fering ... few Americans visited the region, with the exception of the Holy Land and Egypt, and therewerefewcommercial or other relations.By theend of the nineteenth cent...
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university of texas press before the volcano erupted the ancient cerén village in central america mar 2002
... structures, the ancient landscape, and other anthropogenic features Once the topography of the ancient TBJ living sur- face had been mapped, the location of the structures built on it and other cultural ... event and the target event. The dated event is the event dated by chronometric means. For the Cerén samples, the dated events are the death of the grass use...
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university of texas press heraldry for the dead memory identity and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic iberia sep 2008
... Like many prehistorians of his time, he continued to argue for an eastern origin of the plaques. Plaque studies—and indeed the study of the Late Neolithic of the Iberian Peninsula—made their ... southern end of the complex. e variability in tomb types; the size, location, and visibility of these tombs; the number of individuals buried within them; and the q...
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university of texas press in the maw of the earth monster studies of mesoamerican ritual cave use feb 2005
... listsfourentrances to theUnderworld,two of which are throughcaves: the north entrance by the ‘‘cave of thewinds,’’ which is the access to theworld of the dead; and the south entrance, Atotonican, a ... Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar. 2nd ed. Trans. and ed. F. Horcasitas and D. Heyden; foreword M. León-Portilla. University of Okla- homa Press, No...
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university of texas press signs of the inka khipu binary coding in the andean knotted-string records aug 2003
... sufficed to report the quantities of the goods in question. The nature of these products was often obvious from the type of nu- merical signs employed Attheendofthetext, the name of the Tseng 2003.3.5 ... their means, that they can give an account of all the events that have happened in their land for more than five hundred years. They had expert Indians who were master...
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university of texas press the religion of the etruscans feb 2006
... version of their papers, taking into account the con- tributions of others. The table of contents for TheReligionoftheEtruscansre- veals the range of topics. The aim is to be systematic and comprehensive. ... atten- xi The History of the Study of Etruscan Religion 3 architect of the time of Augustus, has left a precise account of the theoretical and practical...
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university of texas press the teotihuacan trinity the sociopolitical structure of an ancient mesoamerican city dec 2007
... had their hands behind their backs, and none emerged as the primary occupant. Instead of housing the tomb of a ruler, the Pyramid of the Moon records the importance of sacrifice in Teotihuacan’s ... construction, there was a simulta- neous increase in obsidian working at Teotihua- can and the appearance of the Teotihuacan state outside the Valley of Mexico. This sug...
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university of california press from marriage to the market the transformation of womens lives and work aug 2006
... University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2006 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress ... question and ultimately overturn many of these old codes. The institution of no-fault divorce, the rising acceptance of cohabitation, the legalization of abort...
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