Books published by University of Texas Press

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.

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

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