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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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Miners of the Red Mountain

Indian Labor in Potosi, 1545-1650

University of New Mexico Press

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
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María of Ágreda

Mystical Lady in Blue

University of New Mexico Press

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
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La Clínica

A Doctor's Journey Across Borders

University of New Mexico Press

Sklar recalls how his earliest experiences in a remote Mexican clinic helped shape his career as an emergency physician and educator.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics

University of New Mexico Press

"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
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Land of Disenchantment

Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Tree Rings' Tale

Understanding Our Changing Climate

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Texas Ranger Biographies

Those Who Served, 1910-1921

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients

A Celebration of Five Centuries of Lore and Wisdom

University of New Mexico Press

Schullery ponders the great endless fish story we perpetuate and enrich every time we cast a fly.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Country of Bullets

Chronicles of War

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Untold Sisters

Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works

Edited by Electa Arenal and Stacey Schlau; Translated by Amanda Powell
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Santa Fe Nativa

A Collection of Nuevomexicano Writing

University of New Mexico Press

This anthology honors Santa Fe's role as the foundation of New Mexican Hispanic culture.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Rabbit and the Fingerbone Necklace

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

Does Ji-Stu meet his match in the crafty ravens, out to get his most prized possession?

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Journey of Tai-me

University of New Mexico Press

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
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In the Presence of the Sun

Stories and Poems, 1961-1991

University of New Mexico Press

A collection of evocative and versatile works by the National Medal of Arts recipient.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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How Shadows Are Bundled

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Building to Endure

Design Lessons of Arid Lands

Edited by Paul Lusk and Alf Simon
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Maya Yucatán

An Artist's Journey

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Morganza, 1967

Life in a Legendary Reform School

University of New Mexico Press

Stuart describes the life of students and staff in this infamous school that was, in reality, a youth prison camp.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Hearing the Mermaid's Song

The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Women's Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Black Mexico

Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Aftershocks

Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin

University of New Mexico Press

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
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A Poetry of Remembrance

New and Rejected Works

By Levi Romero; Foreword by V. B. Price; Preface by Rudolfo Anaya
University of New Mexico Press

Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Andean Journeys

Migration, Ethnogenesis, and the State in Colonial Quito

University of New Mexico Press

A quantitative assessment of the impact of Spanish conquest and colonization on Andean population migration from 1535-1700.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Archaeologist Was a Spy

Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Secret War in El Paso

Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Religion as Art

Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi

Edited by Steven Loza
University of New Mexico Press

These essays explore the relationship between religious practice and the arts in three different world cultures.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby

By (photographer) Craig Varjabedian
University of New Mexico Press

Varjabedian illuminates the dramatic cliffs and plains of Ghost Ranch, once the home of Georgia O'Keeffe.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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¿de Veras?

Young Voices from the National Hispanic Cultural Center

University of New Mexico Press

A collection of poetry, stories, and essays by New Mexico teens who have been part of the Voces creative writing program.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Healing Ways

Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Valles Caldera

A Geologic History

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Travails of Two Woodpeckers

Ivory-Bills and Imperials

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Ancient Southwest

Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Adaptive Optics Revolution

A History

University of New Mexico Press

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
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San Juan Legacy

Life in the Mining Camps

University of New Mexico Press

Smith and Ninnemann chronicle the early years of the nineteenth century boomtowns in the mountains of western Colorado.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arizona

University of New Mexico Press

The prospecting past of Arizona has been kept alive through the notorious tales included here.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Life on the Rocks

One Woman's Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Darfur

By (photographer) Lucian Niemeyer; Foreword by Bill Richardson
University of New Mexico Press

Niemeyer's travels in the Sudan are illustrated by his stunning color photographs of the people caught in the wrenching violence.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Conquest and Catastrophe

Changing Rio Grande Pueblo Settlement Patterns in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

University of New Mexico Press

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
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