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 Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City
Performing Power and Identity
This cultural history examines the functions of public rituals in colonial Mexico City, often totaling as many as 100 celebrations in a year.
- Copyright year: 2004
Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument
Village Formation on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico
These essays summarize the results of new excavation and survey research at Bandelier National Monument, with special attention to determining why larger sites appear when and where they do, and how life in these later villages and towns differed from life in the earlier small hamlets that first dotted the Pajarito in the mid-1100s.
- Copyright year: 2004
Talking Mysteries
A Conversation with Tony Hillerman
In Talking Mysteries, Tony Hillerman discusses his craft, including his approach to plot, characterization, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists that make his brand of fiction unique.
- Copyright year: 2004
New Buffalo
Journals from a Taos Commune
Kopecky's journals take us back to the beginnings of New Buffalo, one of the most successful of the communes that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s, where he and his comrades encountered magic, wisdom, a mix of people, the Peyote Church, planting, and hard winters.
- Copyright year: 2004
Madam Millie
Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan
Madam Millie contains sordid details and frank language that will make many readers blush. It is unvarnished language, as recorded directly from Millie by Max Evans over a period of almost twenty years. It presents a complete picture of the business of prostitution as it was practiced in the west from the late 1920s to the mid 1970s, told by the most successful madam in the business.
- Copyright year: 2003
Foreigners in Their Native Land
Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans
Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by David J. Weber's essays, capture the essence of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2003
Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest
Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, and Native American Perspectives
Prehistoric burial practices provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding and reconstructing ancient civilizations and for identifying the influences that helped shape them.
- Copyright year: 2003
National Rhythms, African Roots
The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance
John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America.
- Copyright year: 2003
Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift
An Intrinsic Gift
A thorough study of how Spain contributed to the Revolutionary War in America.
- Copyright year: 2003
Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
A touching and funny coming-of-age novel set in 1969 with a background of family and the Vietnam war.
- Copyright year: 2003