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.
The Faces of Honor
Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.
- Copyright year: 1998
Posada's Broadsheets
Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890-1910
An intriguing study of the popular culture of early twentieth century Mexico as seen through the penny broadsheets--bullfighters, bandits, politics, and the revolution.
- Copyright year: 1998
La Fiesta de los Tastoanes
Critical Encounters in Mexican Festival Performance
An intimate study of a religious festival in contemporary Mexico that skillfully weaves together ethnography, history, and folklore.
- Copyright year: 1998
Fly-Fishing in Southern New Mexico
An overview of the streams of Southern New Mexico that support trout, the natural history of the streams, and the habitats of the trout that live there.
- Copyright year: 1998
Cuentos de Cuanto Hay
Tales from Spanish New Mexico
A collection of traditional New Mexican Hispanic folktales gathered from the oral tradition in 1931 and translated by famed storyteller Joe Hayes.
- Copyright year: 1998
Bone Voyage
A Journey in Forensic Anthropology
A lively account of the role of the forensic anthropologist in the Office of the Medical Investigator--recovering bodies, establishing identities, and solving the puzzles of death.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Iguana Killer
Twelve Stories of the Heart
Set along the Southwestern border, these stories explore growing up Hispanic and weaving together three distinct worlds--Mexico, the United States, and childhood.
- Copyright year: 1998
Blood on the Boulders
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1694-1697
Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico's formative era in this boxed set.
- Copyright year: 1998
Native American Identities
From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature
An engaging study of stereotypes and archetypes of Native Americans in fiction and art.
- Copyright year: 1998
Que vivan los tamales!
Food and the Making of Mexican Identity
This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present.
- Copyright year: 1998
A Garlic Testament
Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
Meditations on growing garlic and on the farming way of life.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Gift of Life
Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
This remarkable work of anthropology breaks new ground in the study of Latin American female shamanism.
- Copyright year: 1998
Fire from the Andes
Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
South American women authors look at the female experience.
- Copyright year: 1998
Utopian Vistas
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture
The story of the house that Mabel built, and the artists, dreamers, hippies, and freaks that followed.
- Copyright year: 1998
A Zuni Life
A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds
An account of Virgil Wyaco's life in both the traditional Zuni and modern Anglo worlds. His varied career demonstrates the heartbreaks and rewards of a Native American life bridging two cultures in the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas
Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.
- Copyright year: 1997
Tejano Legacy
Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900
A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.
- Copyright year: 1998
Coachella
This desert mystery novel, set in Palm Springs in 1983, is from one of Chicana literature's finest writers.
- Copyright year: 1998
Show and Tell
Identity as Performance in U.S. Latina/o Fiction
Explores issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in nine recent novels by U.S. Latina/o writers.
- Copyright year: 1997
People of the Peyote
Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
- Copyright year: 1997
Anasazi Architecture and American Design
A journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde balancing observations of past architectural and cultural achievements with suggestions and recommendations for design practices in the present.
- Copyright year: 1997
The Circuit
Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
A collection of twelve short stories presented from the perspective of a young boy, in which the author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in a family of Mexican migrant farmworkers.
- Copyright year: 1997
Inhabited Wilderness
Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska
A history of the national parks in Alaska and how they protect the natural ecosystems while allowing certain populations to use the parks to maintain their cultural traditions.
- Copyright year: 1997
Earth's Mind
Essays in Native Literature
Inspired by Chief Joseph's statement that "the Earth and myself are of one mind," Dunsmore studies the works of major Native writers and their connection with the natural world.
- Copyright year: 1997
Wide Ruins
Memories from a Navajo Trading Post
This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II.
- Copyright year: 1997
Tonto's Revenge
Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy
Strickland argues that Indians can better sustain their worldview through law and culture, by remaining true to their heritage, tradition, and spirituality.
- Copyright year: 1997
Hungry Lightning
Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela
A personal view not only of a people whose life as savannah foragers is unique and fast-disappearing, but of the thoughts and actions of a young woman researcher during the hardest, and most exciting time in her life.
- Copyright year: 1997
Breath on the Mirror
Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya
A book of Mayan myths that inhabit the landscape and language, the ruined citadels and living towns of Mayan people in the highlands of Guatemala.
- Copyright year: 1997
Rethinking American Indian History
Using innovative methodologies and theories to rethink American Indian history, this book challenges previous scholarship about Native Americans and their communities.
- Copyright year: 1997
The Navajos in 1705
Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal
This book is a significant contribution to Navajo studies providing the earliest eighteenth-century eyewitness account of the Navajo in New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1997