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.
Miners of the Red Mountain
Indian Labor in Potosi, 1545-1650
In this study Bakewell reexamines Indian-Spanish relations to suggest new aspects of the social and economic history of early colonial Peru.
- Copyright year: 2010
María of Ágreda
Mystical Lady in Blue
The intriguing story of the legendary "Lady in Blue" will be of interest to cultural and religious historians, as well as to women who have struggled for equality against all odds.
- Copyright year: 2009
La Clínica
A Doctor's Journey Across Borders
Sklar recalls how his earliest experiences in a remote Mexican clinic helped shape his career as an emergency physician and educator.
- Copyright year: 2009
Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics
"This book is about the ways that the how of the story and the what of the story are intertwined."--from the Introduction
- Copyright year: 2010
Land of Disenchantment
Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico
This experimental study of cultural dysfunction in New Mexico's Española Valley tells the stories of several of its Nuevomexicano residents, both famous and notorious.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Tree Rings' Tale
Understanding Our Changing Climate
Science writer Fleck addresses one of the most important guiding principles for life in the arid West and one that scientists have long recognized: climate variability.
- Copyright year: 2009
Texas Ranger Biographies
Those Who Served, 1910-1921
The biographies of all 1,782 Texas Rangers who served during the era of the Mexican Revolution are collected in one volume for the first time.
- Copyright year: 2010
Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients
A Celebration of Five Centuries of Lore and Wisdom
Schullery ponders the great endless fish story we perpetuate and enrich every time we cast a fly.
- Copyright year: 2009
Country of Bullets
Chronicles of War
A respected journalist in Colombia chronicles the human stories of survival in the midst of the country's political and military violence.
- Copyright year: 2009
Untold Sisters
Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works
In this revised edition of the first introduction to Hispanic convent culture published in the United States, the authors present the works of nuns going back to the sixteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2010
Santa Fe Nativa
A Collection of Nuevomexicano Writing
This anthology honors Santa Fe's role as the foundation of New Mexican Hispanic culture.
- Copyright year: 2010
Rabbit and the Fingerbone Necklace
Does Ji-Stu meet his match in the crafty ravens, out to get his most prized possession?
- Copyright year: 2009
The Journey of Tai-me
This precursor to The Way to Rainy Mountain was originally published in a handmade edition in 1967 and has never before been commercially available.
- Copyright year: 2010
In the Presence of the Sun
Stories and Poems, 1961-1991
A collection of evocative and versatile works by the National Medal of Arts recipient.
- Copyright year: 2009
How Shadows Are Bundled
An extraordinarily rich collection of poems, many of which explore what C.G. Jung referred to as the "shadow", that dark, usually hidden part of each of us.
- Copyright year: 2009
Building to Endure
Design Lessons of Arid Lands
How the long history of human settlement in the American Southwest can provide valuable lessons in addressing today's need to wisely use energy, water, and the land.
- Copyright year: 2009
Maya Yucatán
An Artist's Journey
These spectacular images document the beauty of the ancient sites of Yucatán and the enduring character of the Maya people still inhabiting the region.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Morganza, 1967
Life in a Legendary Reform School
Stuart describes the life of students and staff in this infamous school that was, in reality, a youth prison camp.
- Copyright year: 2009
Hearing the Mermaid's Song
The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro
Based on personal experience as a participant and observer over nearly a decade, Hale explores the unique spiritual beliefs of this Afro-Brazilian religion originated in Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2009
Women's Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond
This study examines the vital role that women's labor and personal networks play, both within Mexico and transnationally, in assisting other women to migrate and in providing support for male family members as well.
- Copyright year: 2009
Black Mexico
Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.
- Copyright year: 2009
Aftershocks
Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America
In using natural disasters as a way to study societal and especially political change, the essays in this volume illustrate the immediate as well as the long term consequences of destruction.
- Copyright year: 2009
Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin
Following two decades of excavations and research at the NAN Ranch Ruin in southwest New Mexico, Harry Shafer offers new information and interpretations of the rise and disappearance of the ancient Mimbres culture that thrived in the area from about A.D. 600 to 1140.
- Copyright year: 2009
A Poetry of Remembrance
New and Rejected Works
Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.
- Copyright year: 2009
Andean Journeys
Migration, Ethnogenesis, and the State in Colonial Quito
A quantitative assessment of the impact of Spanish conquest and colonization on Andean population migration from 1535-1700.
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The Archaeologist Was a Spy
Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence
Sylvanus G. Morley was the most influential Mayan archaeologist of his generation and perhaps the greatest American spy of WWI. Harris and Sadler document for the first time Morley's dual career as a scholar and a spy. Working for the Office of Naval Intelligence, he proved an invaluable source of information about German and anti-American activity in Mexico and Central America.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Secret War in El Paso
Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920
The untold story of El Paso and its role as the scene of clandestine operations during the Mexican Revolution is revealed here for the first time.
- Copyright year: 2009
Religion as Art
Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi
These essays explore the relationship between religious practice and the arts in three different world cultures.
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Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby
Varjabedian illuminates the dramatic cliffs and plains of Ghost Ranch, once the home of Georgia O'Keeffe.
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¿de Veras?
Young Voices from the National Hispanic Cultural Center
A collection of poetry, stories, and essays by New Mexico teens who have been part of the Voces creative writing program.
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Healing Ways
Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Chronicles the advent of so-called "western" or "scientific" medicine in the modern era, and how Navajos adapted, but did not compromise their traditional healings ways.
- Copyright year: 2001
Valles Caldera
A Geologic History
Formed by massive volcanic eruptions over a million years ago, the Valles Caldera offers scientists unprecedented opportunities for studying its geologic wonders, and now as a national preserve, it offers the public a unique outdoor experience.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Travails of Two Woodpeckers
Ivory-Bills and Imperials
The long, sad story of the failure of efforts to prevent the extinction of two of nature's most impressive woodpeckers offers lessons for preventing the extinctions of other species.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Ancient Southwest
Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde
Stuart's accessible stories of the ancient peoples and sites of the American Southwest have been updated with recent discoveries on Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Adaptive Optics Revolution
A History
Duffner has compiled the history of the most revolutionary breakthrough in astronomy since Galileo pointed his telescope skyward--the technology that will greatly expand our understanding of the universe.
- Copyright year: 2009
San Juan Legacy
Life in the Mining Camps
Smith and Ninnemann chronicle the early years of the nineteenth century boomtowns in the mountains of western Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2009
Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arizona
The prospecting past of Arizona has been kept alive through the notorious tales included here.
- Copyright year: 2009
Life on the Rocks
One Woman's Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation
Artist Katherine Wells's life story starts with an early interest in Native art and the petroglyphs of the Southwest that drew her to New Mexico and led to a major effort to preserve the iconic images she found on her own land.
- Copyright year: 2009
Darfur
Niemeyer's travels in the Sudan are illustrated by his stunning color photographs of the people caught in the wrenching violence.
- Copyright year: 2009
Conquest and Catastrophe
Changing Rio Grande Pueblo Settlement Patterns in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
A multifaceted reinterpretation of the Pueblo losses of settlements and population from 1540 until after reconquest at the end of the 1600s.
- Copyright year: 2009