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.
Give Me Life
Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals
This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones
A Critical Companion
The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones offers the first collection of scholarship on Jones's ever-expanding oeuvre.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Birth of the Imagination
William Carlos Williams on Form
- Copyright year: 2016
Before Brasília
Frontier Life in Central Brazil
Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history.
- Copyright year: 2016
Old Ramon
Awarded a 1961 Newbery Honor, Old Ramon tells the timeless coming-of-age story of a young boy who spends a summer with an old shepherd in the Mojave Desert.
- Copyright year: 1960
America Unbound
Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies
This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.
- Copyright year: 2016
Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala
Through this investigation, the promises and pitfalls of a literacy-revitalization endeavor are detailed and our understanding of the concept of literacy is reexamined.
- Copyright year: 2016
Costly and Cute
Helpless Infants and Human Evolution
The contributors to this volume propose that the "helpless infant" has played a role in human evolution equal in importance to those of "man the hunter" and "woman the gatherer."
- Copyright year: 2016
The Canyon
Based on a Cheyenne legend, this novel holds universal appeal as it explores the theme of a man's conflict with his culture.
- Copyright year: 1953
Heroes without Glory
Some Good Men of the Old West
Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West--the doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West.
- Copyright year: 1965