Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution. By Mónica M. Salas Landa. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $50.00 cloth; $50.00 eBook.

Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru. [Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology 15.]. By Florence E. Babb. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 245. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Tables. 11.95, paper.) - Volume 47 Issue 3

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Florence E. Babb, Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru, Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology, No. 15 (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1989), pp. xiii + 245, 11.95 pb. - Volume 23 Issue 1

1943a. Comments on the herpetofauna of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes of Guatemala. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich. No. 471, 28 pp. . 1943b. Taxonomic and geographic comments on Guatemalan salamanders of the genus Oedipus. Misc. Pub. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich. No. 56, 33 pp. 1948. The amphibians and reptiles of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Ibid. No. 69, 109 pp. . 1950. A geographic study of the herpetofauna of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Contrib. Lab. Vert. Biol. Univ. Mich. No. 45, 77 PP. 1951. The herpetofauna of the Guatemalan Plateau, with special reference to its distribution on the southwestern highlands. Ibid. No. 49, 71 pp. . 1954a. A description of a subhumid 943a. Com ents on the herpetofauna corridor across northern Central America, with comments on its herpetofaunal indicators. Ibid. No. 65, 26 pp. . 1954b. Herpetofauna of the southeastern highlands of Guatemala. Ibid. No. 68, 65 pp. 1957. Herpetofaunal dispersal routes through northern Central America. Copeia 1957(2):89-94. 1966. The environment of the Central American cold-blooded vertebrate fauna. Copeia 1966(4):684-699. WAGNER, P. L. 1964. Natural vegetation of Middle America. In Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. 1. R. Wauchope and R. C. West, eds., pp. 216-264. Univ. Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

Students wishing to illustrate the distribution of aquatic or riparian organisms frequently cannot find suitable drainage maps of the area of their interests. This is true for Mexico, a region in which biologists of many disciplines are actively working. A drainage map of that Republic is described here so that others who find it suitable for their work may obtain copies. The base used for the map is and Central America, prepared by the National Geographic Society, March, 1953. The scale is 1:3,500,000, about 55 miles (92 km.) to the inch. After the preliminary draft was made, the drainages were checked against the sheets of the Carta Geographica de la Republica Mexicana, scale 1: 500,000, 1957-58. Reference was also made to the Carta Geologica de la Republica Mexicana, scale 1:2,000,000, 1960. For upto-date information on reservoirs (presas), the second edition (1966) of Caminos de was used. This is published by La Compafiia Hulera Euzkadi, S. A., in a most attractive format, and is available at Sanborn's in Mexico City. Outside measurements of the map are 37 inches long and 27 inches wide; actual map size is 351/2 X 26 inches. Drainage detail was designed for reduction to page size (approximately 8 x 51/2 inches), with placement of the map lengthwise on the page. Consequently, some playas, lakes, and reservoirs had to be made larger than they actually are, some streams had to be cut short so that they would not coalesce with adjacent ones on opposite sides of drainage divides, and many creeks and lagunas could not be included. Shoreline features also have been simplified. State boundaries are shown, but some are only approximate. Brackish water lagoons are differentiated from freshwater bodies by a coarser stipple; playas are shown by a dashed outline. Natural lakes and reservoirs have the same stippling. The map was drafted by William L. Cristanelli, with some subsequent modifications by Jeanne Koelling and Martha B. Lackey. My wife, Frances H. Miller, devoted many hours to the tedious checking of drainages, an often frustrating experience since rarely do two maps of Mexico agree in their hydrographic detail. Roger Conant and Rezneat M. Darnell kindly supplied corrections and suggestions for improvement. The Yucatan Peninsula is blank because the outer part (most of Yucatan) has no surface streams and it is impossible to show the numerous steep-sided cenotes (limestone sinks) and funnel-shaped sink holes (aguadas) at the scale of this map; the basal part has neither surface streams nor natural wells (see Handbook of Middle American Indians, 1964, vol. 1:377 and fig. 18, Univ. Texas Press). An attempt was made to show intermittent streams, but this met with only partial success because of scale size and insufficient information. Despite all these difficulties it is believed that the map will prove useful to many. Those using it are urged to let me know of noteworthy errors and omissions. The map is for sale through the Secretary of the Museum of Zoology (see address below) and across the counter. Support from NSF GB 6272X is gratefully acknowledged.

Jeremy Mclnerney, The Folds o f Parnasses, Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis, Austin: University o f Texas Press, 1999. xvi + 391 pp. + 8 maps + 20 b/w plates. ISBN 0 92 75229 6.

326 SEER, 79, 2, 2001 Monas, Sidney and Krupala,Jennifer Greene (eds). 7The DiariesofNikolai Punin, I904-I953. TranslatedbyJennifer Greene Krupala.Universityof Texas Press, Austin, TX, I999. xliv + 26I pp. Photographs. Glossary. Index. $29.95. SINCE the collapse of the Soviet Union the privatediaryhas proven to be one of the most eloquent and occasionally disconcerting testaments to the real force of terror and repression. Since I99I we have seen the publication of diariesby Mikhail Prishvin, Ol'ga Berggol'ts,FedorAbramov, David Samoilov , and the literary critics Igor' Dedkov and Vladimir Lakshin, among others, all of which have cast a distinctly personal eye over momentous historical events. Not only do we get a clear picture of how these events affectedindividuals,but the diary as a specificallyRussian literarygenre has come into itsown. Nikolai Punin (I888- I953) was one of the best-known art criticsin Soviet Russia, and was particularlyinvolved with the Constructivistand Futurist movements. He is perhaps better known, however, for his long and often tempestuous relationship with Anna Akhmatova (between 1922 and 1936). These diaries,collected and translatedfromarchivesboth in the Universityof Texas at Austin and the Punin family archive in St. Petersburg,cover almost half a century, beginning when Nikolai Punin was still an adolescent and ending in 1946. Punin'slast yearswere spent in the Abez prison camp in the Komi peninsula (he was arrestedin 1949), and are covered here by various documentarymaterials,includingPunin'scorrespondencewith MarfaGolubeva , his thirdwife. What is remarkableabout these diariesis the sheerbreadthof emotion and subjectmatter. Punin conveys brilliantlythe atmosphereof Petrogradduring FebruaryI91 7, the anxietiesand the fearsof ordinarypeople as criticalevents are taking place in the streets outside. The diary form here expresses the feelingsand thoughtsof the moment, an immediate responseto events such as Kornilov'sattemptedputsch in August 19I7: 'Getting readyfor bed, I loaded my revolver [. . .] I await what might happen in the streets in the morning, anxiouslylisteningto even the slightestrumble is it a cannonade?The wind howls;today there is a terriblewest wind. How many days, hourswill I live?' (p. 52). There are many vivid passages, none more so than his description of the Leningrad flood in September I924. Punin's prose brilliantlyand unforgettablyrecreatesthe terrorfacing the people of Leningradwhen war breaksout in 1941, the fear and day-to-day uncertainty as bombs fall and food runs scarce.Buttherearemany otherpages of a distinctlyprivatenature,including letters between Punin and Akhmatova. Punin's love for his 'olenik'is unbounded, and the modern readercannot help but be touched by the depth of his feelingsover the decades (even aftertheirrelationshipended). There are also many pages devoted to Punin's reflectionson God, art and science, and the roll-call of famous names that drop in and out of the text is highly impressive. This book will thus help (re)establishNikolai Punin as a majorfigurein Russian art and culturein the twentieth century.We get a full picture of an eager, inquisitivemind, and of a man very often at the mercy of REVIEWS 327 his own emotions. The edition also contains excellent introductoryessaysby Sidney Monas on Punin and Futurism,and by Jennifer Greene Krupala on the relationship between Punin and Akhmatova. The final few pages of the text, containing letters and transcriptsrelating to Punin's arrest, trial and death in the Gulag offer a bitter, somewhat ironic conclusion to the story of one talented and eruditeman'slife in a brutaltotalitarianstate. Unrizversi{y ofBath DAVID GILLESPIE Pasternak,BorisL.; Pasternak,Leonid, and Pasternak,E. B. Pis'makroditeliam i sestram. Stanford Slavic Studies I8 and I9. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, I998, 2 vols. 328 and 334 pp. Photographs. Notes. Indexes. $70ooo. ONE of the paradoxicaltwistsin the heritageof Russianpoetry in Soviet times is that a privateletter was more a public document than a poem: likely, even certain to be intercepted, it would be subject to a critical reading far more gravidwith consequences for the authorthan any of his poems. This, and the inefficiency of the Soviet postal system, national and international, partly explains why the epistolarywork of Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak is far less interestingin itselfand farless revealingas an adjunctto the poetry than, say, the letters of Pushkin, Tiutchev or Blok. Soviet constraintsmade poets better and more prolific translatorsbut turned their letters either to overblowneuphuismsor shrunkencrypticwarnings. In the case of Pasternak,the...

Martha Menchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans (Austin, TX: University of New Texas Press, 2002), pp. xi+375, 24.95 pb. - Volume 35 Issue 3

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British Journal of Pharmacology and ChemotherapyVolume 32, Issue 3 p. 483-492 Free Access EFFECT OF MERCURY DERIVATIVES, IMPLANTED INTO THE HYPOTHALAMUS, ON THE WATER INTAKE OF ALBINO RATS F. BERGMANN, F. BERGMANN Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this authorM. CHAIMOVITZ, M. CHAIMOVITZ Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this authorY. GUTMAN, Y. GUTMAN Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this authorA. ZERACHIA, A. ZERACHIA Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this author F. BERGMANN, F. BERGMANN Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this authorM. CHAIMOVITZ, M. CHAIMOVITZ Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this authorY. GUTMAN, Y. GUTMAN Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this authorA. ZERACHIA, A. ZERACHIA Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, IsraelSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1968 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-5381.1968.tb00449.xCitations: 7AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat References Bauer, J. & Aschner, B. (1924). Die therapeutische Wirkung des Novasurols bei Diabetes insipidus. Zentbl. inn. Med., 45, 682– 688. Bergmann, F., Chaimovitz, M., Costin, A., Gutman, Y. & Ginath, Y. (1967). Water intake of rats after implantation of ouabain into the hypothalamus. Am. J. Physiol., 213, 328– 332. Bergmann, F., Zerachia, A., Chaimovitz, M. & Gutman, Y. (1968). Influence of drugs, implanted into the hypothalamus, on the water consumption of rats. J. Pharmac. exp. Ther., 159, 222– 232. Clarkson, T. W., Rothstein, A. & Sutherland, R. (1965). The mechanism of action of mercurial derivatives in rats. The metabolism of 203Hg-labelled chlormerodrin. Br. J. Pharmac. Chemother., 24, 1– 13. Duggan, D. E. & Noll, R. M. (1965). Effects of ethacrynic acid and cardiac glycosides upon a membrane ATPase of renal cortex. Archs. Biochem. Biophys., 109, 388– 396. Gussin, R. Z. & Cafruny, E. J. (1965). Effects of ethacrynic acid on renal uptake of mercury. J. Pharmac. exp. Ther., 149, 1– 6. Gutman, Y. & Chaimovitz, M. (1966). Effect of chlorothiazide on water consumption in the rat. Nature Lond., 209, 410– 411. Havard, C. W. H. & Wood, P. H. N. (1961). Effect of diuretics on renal water excretion in diabetes insipidus. Clin. Sci., 21, 321– 332. Heinemann, H. O. & Becker, E. L. (1958). Effect of a mercurial diuretic on the excretion of “free water” in diabetes insipidus. J. appl. Physiol., 12, 51– 54. Hughes, W. L. (1947). An albumin fraction isolated from human plasma as a crystalline mercuric salt. J. Am. chem. Soc., 69, 1836– 1837. Jones, V. D., Lockett, G. & Landon, E. J. (1965). A cellular action of mercurial diuretics. J. Pharmac. exp. Ther., 147, 23– 31. Landon, E. J. & Norris, J. L. (1963). Sodium and potassium-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity in a rat-kidney endoplasmic reticulum fraction. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 71, 266– 276. Levy, R. I., Weiner, I. M. & Mudge, G. H. (1958). The effect of acid-base balance on the diuresis produced by organic and inorganic mercurials. J. clin. Invest., 37, 1016– 1023. Massopust, L. C. (1961). In Electrical Stimulation of the Brain, ed. D. E. Sheer, pp. 182– 202. Austin, Texas: Univ. Texas Press. Miller, T. B. & Riggs, D. S. (1961). Mercurial diuresis in dogs with diabetes insipidus. J. Pharmac. exp. Ther., 132, 329– 338. Montemurro, D. G. & Stevenson, J. A. F. (1957). Adipsia produced by hypothalamic lesions in the rat. Can. J. Biochem. Physiol., 35, 31– 37. Skou, J. C. (1965). Enzymatic basis for active transport of Na+ and K+ across cell membrane. Physiol. Rev., 45, 596– 617. Taylor, C. B. (1963). The effect of mercurial diuretics on adenosine triphosphatase of rabbit kidney. in vitro IBiochem. Pharmac., 12, 539– 550. Citing Literature Volume32, Issue3March 1968Pages 483-492 ReferencesRelatedInformation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 677-678 Review Menchaca, Martha. Naturalizing Mexican immigrants: a Texas history. xi, 372 pp., map, tables, illus., bibliogr. Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 2011. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Mac Graham, Mac Graham University of TorontoSearch for more papers by this author Mac Graham, Mac Graham University of TorontoSearch for more papers by this author First published: 07 August 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12058_19Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume19, Issue3September 2013Pages 677-678 RelatedInformation

Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. 322 + viii pp. David R. Johnson. Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the Development of the American Police, 1800-1887. Philadelphia: ' Temple University Press, 1979. 240 + viii pp. Roger Lane. Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. 193 + xiii pp. Not a visitation from evil social outcasts, violence was an intrinsic part of the American personality and social structure, or so state these three authors, and most contemporary historians would agree. The authors considered here place violence and crime within wider intellectual frameworks, analyze the functions violence and crime served, and deal with violence and crime as personal and social indices to some broader historical questions. What is lost in this general approach is any sense of horror, or of the specialness of these forms of human action, or of their consequences upon perpetrators and victims alike. Perhaps one cause of this detachment is a desire to move beyond the past fifteen years' historical and sociological breast-beating that Americans were extraordinarily and perhaps uncontrollably violent. While none of these authors denies that there was a great deal of violence in American society, all want to explain it in context, rather than simply to count it up and categorize it in a bout of America Firstism gone perverse. Much explantory power clearly is gained by such detachment, yet the danger remains of rendering violence banal and ordinary in the end.

Mummies and Mortuary Monuments:. Postprocessual Prehistory of Central Andean Social Organization. William H. Isbell. University of Texas Press, 1997. 372 pp.

Ask any serious punk fan to name Texas punk bands and the answer will likely contain the triumvirate of queercore acts: MDC, Big Boys, and The Dicks. Ask a more general music fan to cite songs or musicians whose content focuses on El Paso and conditions worsen as Marty Robbins' gunfighter ballad “El Paso” inevitably springs to mind (6). Tara López's Chuco Punk corrects both injustices while filling in a much-needed gap in punk's history. López notes that the first band described as “punk” was Chicanx band? and the Mysterians in 1966, which elicited a sky punch from this reviewer. Matters only improved thereafter (x). The first “Chuco” artist was “Don Tosti,” whose “Pachuco Boogie” became the first Mexican American record to sell 1 million copies (12). Pride in El Paso as a center for political and cultural resistance stretched back to the 17th century (12; 14). López's accounts of the atrocities suffered by immigrants, such as the 127,173 Mexicans deloused with Zyklon-B and bathed in gasoline due to fear of typhus, reads like a right-wing extremist's fantasy (17–18). In a manner similar to the veneration of Baader-Meinhof by European University students in the 1970s, Mexican immigrants “spotlighted the lives of thieves and criminals as folk heroes” (19). López also cites the significance of the “zoot suit” to the culture. The Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 “highlighted how menacing pachuquismo was to white supremacy” (21), drawing a straight line to greasers, goths, or any other “threatening” youth culture. The 1950s and 1960s saw El Paso emerge as a musical hotbed, attracting artists like Long John Hunter and Bobby Fuller (24). Fuller's rendition of “I Fought the Law” would later become associated more closely with The Clash, whose frontman Joe Strummer voiced his love of West Texas to Joe Ely in 1978 (27). Chapter Two highlights the importance of first-wave Chicanx punk bands in California such as The Plugz, led by El Paso native Tito Larriva, and The Zeros, whose “Wild Weekend” was to Japanese punks Teengenerate what John Fogerty's “Rockin' All Over the World” was to Status Quo (29). Bands back home like Teenage Popeye and The Rhythm Pigs received widespread coverage in punk bible Maximumrocknroll (31–32). Bobbie Welch also began her career during this period, acting at the grassroots level (36). This period also saw the proliferation of punk-related gangs like the N(orth) E(ast) D(eath) S(quad) and Three Blind Bats out of necessity for protection against outside aggressors (36). López also mentions the crossover of punk with skateboarding. Though the culture had become male-dominated in the 1980s and 1990s, these groups provided an alternative family for many, considering the dysfunctional state of many skaters' actual families and the multiracial, multigender, multi-sexual identities in the scene (42; 44). The third chapter, “Rascuache,” argues that the D.I.Y. spirit dominant in the punk movement was taken further in the scene due to “rascuache […] a practice and a feeling that imbued their words, songs, actions, and music with cultural pride and history” (61; 63). This was represented in groups like the Misfits-loving Sicteens, but a serious political streak also remained (82). Sbitch and Revolucion X's songs voiced concerns such as the rampant unemployment caused by NAFTA's passage and unchecked abuses of power by border agents and local law enforcement (69; 73). Chapter Four focuses on how the scene in the late 1990s expanded beyond local parameters. At the Drive-In were the leaders in Chuco receiving national exposure via their major label debut Relationship of Command in 2000 (108). Sadly, this led to the group's demise as signing with a major label led to charges of the group being sell-outs (117–119). At Big Day Out in January 2001, the misogynistic behavior of new fans culminated in the band walking offstage. The group dissolved shortly thereafter. The political focus of the second wave continued, with López focusing attention on the increase in femicides along the border, another grim side effect of NAFTA's passage, leading to M.U.J.E.R.'s establishment (123; 126). Chuco punks picked up the gauntlet thrown down by “Minor Threat”'s “Make do with what you have. Take what you can get.” Do pay mind to them. López's text is a labor of love, evoking the print days of Maximumrocknroll. It reads like an extended scene report in the best way possible. So successful is López in resurrecting the zeitgeist that I ended up with fingers gray from newsprint, even though my review copy was an e-text.

Benedict as Feminist: <i>Ruth Benedict</i> . Stranger in This Land. Margaret M. Caffrey. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1989. xii, 432 pp. + plates. $24.95. American Studies Series.