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The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca
Austin: University of Texas Press (2025), 224 pp.
"It's been said that Oaxacans "believe in images." Visual manifestations of saints and loved ones are a fundamental part of life there. Oaxacans also seem to have a special relationship with La Santa Muerte, a female reaper-like figure whose cult has grown rapidly as violence in Mexico has increased
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Taking form, making worlds: Cartonera publishers in Latin America
Austin: University of Texas Press (2022), xvi, 303 pp.
"A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged
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Understanding Indian Movies: Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
Austin: University of Texas Press (2021), 293 pp.
"In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and explication of culturally particular information about Indian history, Hindu metaphysics, Islamic spirituality, Sanskrit aesthetics, and other Indian traditions to provide necessary cultural contexts for understanding Indian films
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Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century
Austin: University of Texas Press (2021), xiv, 288 pp.
"Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Today the country is one of the most dangerous in the world in which to be a reporter. In Surviving Mexico, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly examine the networks of political power, business interests, and organi
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Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil
Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), xi, 210 pp.
"This pioneering study examines television’s impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupá, in 1983, to the present." (Publisher website)
Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), x, 117 pp.
Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle
Austin: University of Texas Press (2010), xi, 257 pp.
"Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling sto
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Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America
Austin: University of Texas Press (2008), x, 245 pp.
"In this first comprehensive analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas, Hugo Benavides assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful while more elite cultural productions are declining in popularity. Benavides offer
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Ethnographic Film
Austin: University of Texas Press, revised ed. (2006), xvi, 161 pp.
"Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to thi
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Cinema and the Sandinistas: Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua
Austin: University of Texas Press (2003), xvii, 323 pp.
Latin Politics, Global Media
Austin: University of Texas Press (2002), xxii, 203 pp.
Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide
Austin: University of Texas Press (2001), xii, 210 pp.
"Since we learn our cultural behavior in units, it is a useful artifice to compare cultural differences in units. To learn to communicate across cultures more quickly and more effectively, we can apply a framework of categories of potential obstacles (cultural units) to our own and to a target cultu
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The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
Austin: University of Texas Press (1999), vii, 274 pp.
"This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The book covers these major areas: language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation; language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, nam
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South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994
Austin: University of Texas Press (1998), xx, 405 pp.
Mass Media and Free Trade: NAFTA and the Cultural Industries
Austin: University of Texas Press (1996), 420 pp.
"This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communications to explore what effects the North American Free Trade Agreement will have on the flow of cultural products among Mexico, the United States, and Canada. After an overview of free trade and the
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