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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.

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Spanish for Mental Health Professionals

A Step by Step Handbook

University of New Mexico Press

This handbook will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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From Sovereign Villages to National States

City, State, and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839

University of New Mexico Press

Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces into enduring states.

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Coyote and the Sky

How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began

University of New Mexico Press

The Santa Ana Pueblo creation legend including how Coyote tricked the other animals to join them in our world and how he was punished.

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American Indian Literary Nationalism

University of New Mexico Press

A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.

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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955

University of New Mexico Press

The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.

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Between Breaths

A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush

University of New Mexico Press

The experiences of a young woman who was the first band instructor in a remote fishing village in 1950s Alaska.

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Governing New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This new revision of New Mexico Government includes a brief history of the state and other chapters on government organization, local and tribal governments, elections, and education.

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Broken Glass

A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness

University of New Mexico Press

The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness.

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Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives

Blacks in Colonial Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

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New Mexico Past and Future

University of New Mexico Press

This new perspective on the colorful history of New Mexico includes the stories of many of the people who have spent their lives in the area from before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century through the present day.

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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil

Bahia, 1835-1900

University of New Mexico Press

The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.

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Beyond the Missouri

The Story of the American West

University of New Mexico Press

A narrative history of the many peoples and cultures of the American West from prehistory to the twenty-first century.

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Migrations

New Directions in Native American Art

Edited by Marjorie Devon
University of New Mexico Press

Migrations features a surprising selection of the work of six contemporary artists and the master printers at Tamarind Institute along with important essays by noted critics on the new directions of Native art.

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The Guaymas Chronicles

La Mandadera

University of New Mexico Press

This memoir of a young gringo anthropologist's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is also an account of the area's working-class life in the late 1960s.

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Squares

A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists

University of New Mexico Press

This discussion of what makes public places appealing and useful will inspire those involved with public planning and design.

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Santa Fe Hispanic Culture

Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town

University of New Mexico Press

A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.

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D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico

The Time is Different There

University of New Mexico Press

Recollections of Lawrence's life and friends in 1920s Taos.

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Tinisima

University of New Mexico Press

This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.

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Malintzin's Choices

An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.

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The Witches of Abiquiu

The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil

University of New Mexico Press

The little-known story of a priest's charges of witchcraft among Indians in mid-eighteenth-century New Mexico and how the Spanish government rejected the charges in the effort to achieve peace with their Native subjects.

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Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide

All About Rodeo

University of New Mexico Press

The workings, workers, and animals of the heartstopping world of rodeo.

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The City of Women

By Ruth Landes; Introduction by Sally Cole
University of New Mexico Press

This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil.

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The Mountains of New Mexico

By Robert Julyan; Photographs by Carl Smith
University of New Mexico Press

This guide to New Mexico's mountains provides information such as location, elevation and relief, ecosystems, archaeology, Native American presence, mining history, ghost towns, recreation, geology, ecology, and plants and animals.

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Photography and Writing in Latin America

Double Exposures

University of New Mexico Press

This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century.

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Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

University of New Mexico Press

The archaeology of space and place is examined in this selection of papers from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference.

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San Juan Bonanza

Western Colorado's Mining Legacy

University of New Mexico Press

A collaborative photo-history of the natural beauty of the narrow-gauge railroads and mountain trails leading to the San Juan Mountains' mining camps, boomtowns, and ghost towns.

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Darkest Before Dawn

Sedition and Free Speech in the American West

University of New Mexico Press

Today's threats against freedom of speech echo the hysteria of World War I, when Americans went to prison for dissent. This cautionary tale focuses on events in Montana and the West that led to the suspension of this crucial right.

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Cantemos al Alba

Origins of Songs, Sounds, and Liturgical Drama of Hispanic New Mexico

By Tomás Lozano; Translated by Rima Montoya
University of New Mexico Press

New Mexico's early Hispanic liturgical literature and music are thoroughly examined in this comprehensive bilingual volume accompanied by two CDs.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Bernard Plossu's New Mexico

By Gilles Mora; Photographs by Bernard Plossu; Foreword by Edward T. Hall
University of New Mexico Press

A remarkable collection of New Mexico images by one of today's best-known French photographers.

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Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers over 325 color photos showing Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona.

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Orange County Housecleaners

University of New Mexico Press

Orange County Housecleaners documents the lives of seven women who make their livings cleaning houses in Orange County, California; five are Latina immigrants and two are Orange County natives.

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Decade of Betrayal

Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s

University of New Mexico Press

Decade of Betrayal focuses on the experiences of individuals illegally shipped from the U.S. to Mexico in the 1930s and the recent questions of a formal apology and fiscal remuneration.

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A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars

University of New Mexico Press

This history and guidebook is composed of two parts: first, narratives of the Plains Indian conflicts and, second, directions to battle sites in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.

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Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs

University of New Mexico Press

Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs lists 350 Navajo verbs in paradigm form, conjugated for the Imperfective, Perfective, and Future modes.

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Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, and a Quasar-Spangled Universe

The Discoveries of the Very Large Array Telescope

University of New Mexico Press

Karen Taschek introduces teen readers to the wonders revealed by the VLA telescope, beginning with basic information on our solar system and our Milky Way galaxy.

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Corridos in Migrant Memory

University of New Mexico Press

Corridos in Migrant Memory examines the role of ballads in shaping the cultural memories and identities of transnational Mexican groups.

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The Sausage Rebellion

Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917

University of New Mexico Press

This study of the Mexican meat industry's resistance to American processing methods illustrates one of the popular origins of the Revolution of 1910 and how Mexican butchers preserved their traditional craft.

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Local Religion in Colonial Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The ten essays in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico provide information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico.

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Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation

Alcohol Among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador

University of New Mexico Press

Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation examines how the defense of drinking and getting drunk ended abruptly as the people of Otavalo re-evaluated their traditional religious life and their relationship with the wider Ecuadorian society.

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Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

Indigeneity in Transition

University of New Mexico Press

An ethnographic study of the Ch'orti' Maya of Guatemala and their reformulation of their history and identity.

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Albuquerque Remembered

University of New Mexico Press

An informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City" and its inhabitants by a longtime New Mexico reporter.

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Rabbit Plants the Forest

By Deborah L. Duvall; Illustrated by Murv Jacob
University of New Mexico Press

Based on the ancient Cherokee teaching that squirrels keep the woods alive and should not be hunted, Rabbit Plants the Forest tells the story from Cherokee mythology about animals and their places in our world.

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New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

New Mexico is a single volume presentation of the fascinating succession of events and characters that make up the state's past.

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Larger Than Life

New Mexico in the Twentieth Century

University of New Mexico Press

Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on New Mexico's history through its people, places, and events.

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The Eyes of the Weaver

Los Ojos del Tejedor

University of New Mexico Press

Cristina Ortega shares with children her memories of visits with her grandfather who taught her how to weave when she was ten years old.

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National Parks and the Woman's Voice

A History

University of New Mexico Press

In this updated study, Polly Kaufman discovers that staff are no longer able to fulfill the National Park Service mission without outside support.

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Healing with Herbs and Rituals

A Mexican Tradition

University of New Mexico Press

Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of herbalists as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

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Hoyt Street

An Autobiography

University of New Mexico Press

This story of a Mexican American childhood in the barrios of Southern California will touch your heart and make you laugh out loud.

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice in the Balance

University of New Mexico Press

Learn how O'Connor became the Court's most important vote on such issues as abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, the role of religion in society, and the election of a president, decisions that shaped a generation of Americans.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Into the Canyon

Seven Years in Navajo Country

University of New Mexico Press

"A delight to read; an invaluable historical and cultural narrative."--Leslie Marmon Silko

  • Copyright year: 2006
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