Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
Banana Cowboys
The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.
- Copyright year: 2018
Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime
This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics.
- Copyright year: 2018
Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo
The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project
This book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning financial support took their toll.
- Copyright year: 2018
Island, River, and Field
Landscape Archaeology in the Llanos de Mojos
John H. Walker's innovative study of the Bolivian Amazon examines the agricultural landscape and analyzes the earthworks from an archaeological perspective.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology
This exploration of Iberian, Latin American, and US-Hispanic representations of Christ focuses on outliers in art, literature, and theology: Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco, Argentine writer Jorge Borges, Spanish existentialist Miguel de Unamuno, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos.
- Copyright year: 2018
Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way
Cooking with Tall Woman
Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way is the first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Navajos from the earliest known times into the present and relate them to the Navajo Nation’s participation in the food sovereignty movement.
- Copyright year: 2018
Fifty Years at the Pit
The University of New Mexico's Legendary Venue
With almost two hundred color photographs, this illustrative explosion shows you the players, the plays, the coaches, and the sold-out crowds dressed in red.
- Copyright year: 2018
Curious Disciplines
Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood
Foregrounding Loy's critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, and "Degenerate" artisthood, and exploring her poetic legacies today, Curious Disciplines reveals Loy's importance in an entirely novel way.
- Copyright year: 2018
Woodswork
New and Selected Stories of the American West
These stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West.
- Copyright year: 2018
60 Short Hikes in the Sandia Foothills
This book introduces sixty short hikes in the public lands on the eastern edge of the city of Albuquerque.
- Copyright year: 2018