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.
Dark Spaces
Montana's Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge
Baumler and Cooper collaborate to tell the human story of Montana's first federal penal facility.
- Copyright year: 2008
ChupaCabra and the Roswell UFO
This fast-paced mystery expands the ChupaCabra folklore into a metaphor that deals with the new powers inherent in science.
- Copyright year: 2008
Rio Grande Fall
Murder jeopardizes tourist dollars during the Albuquerque fall balloon extravaganza in this exciting Sonny Baca mystery.
- Copyright year: 2008
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.
- Copyright year: 2008
Nepantla
Essays from the Land in the Middle
Mora's insights on bilingualism, education, women, and family are sometimes barbed and always exact.
- Copyright year: 2008
G-Dog and the Homeboys
Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
This is an updated edition of the story of the gang scene in East L.A. and Father Gregory Boyle's innovative ministry and economic development efforts in the area.
- Copyright year: 2008
Creek Indian Medicine Ways
The Enduring Power of Mvskoke Religion
In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, Jordan traces the written accounts of Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the present in order to historically contextualize Lewis's story and knowledge. This book is a collaboration between anthropologist and medicine man that provides a rare glimpse of a living religious tradition and its origins.
- Copyright year: 2002
Closing the Chart
A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine
"Every patient should read it, if only to be made aware that they are not alone with their thoughts. Every spouse of a patient should read it. . . . Every medical student and physician should read it to learn that the biology of the disease is really just a small part of the illness."--John Saiki, M.D., Medical Oncology, University of New Mexico
- Copyright year: 2008
Mormonism Unveiled
The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young
A reprint of John Doyle Lee's 1891 autobiography, this edition includes the story of Brigham Young, early Mormonism, and the Mountain Meadows massacre.
- Copyright year: 2008
Under Sacred Ground
A History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982
Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This ethnohistory tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in the six decades following the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas on tribal lands.
- Copyright year: 2008
Survival Along the Continental Divide
An Anthology of Interviews
Loeffler has recorded interviews with representatives of the diverse cultures of New Mexico, revealing the cultural mosaic of the people along the Continental Divide.
- Copyright year: 2008
Jews in New Mexico Since World War II
Tobias explores the cultural and political influence of the New Mexico Jewish community since the Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2008
Digging for Dollars
American Archaeology and the New Deal
Fagette's book is a thorough, compelling history of American archaeology in its most critical decade, the 1930s.
- Copyright year: 2008
A Peaceful and Working People
Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico
The author examines class formation and social and labor issues in this study of the Hidalgo mining district in northern Mexico from the 1890s to the 1920s.
- Copyright year: 2008
A Bigger Boat
The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene
Exciting words by talented poets who have made Albuquerque's poetry slams so successful.
- Copyright year: 2008
Zia Summer
Sonny Baca investigates the brutal murder of his cousin, whose husband is a candidate for mayor of Albuquerque.
- Copyright year: 2008
Swept Under the Rug
A Hidden History of Navajo Weaving
Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.
- Copyright year: 2008
In the Shadow of Los Alamos
Selected Writings of Edith Warner
To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.
- Copyright year: 2008
Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico
With Selected Songs Collected, Transcribed, and Arranged for Voice with Piano or Guitar Accompaniment
Folk music fans and teachers will welcome this new edition of a New Mexico classic, now in a useful spiral binding.
- Copyright year: 2008
Buffalo Bill on Stage
Stunning photographs document "Buffalo Bill" Cody's early years as he led a troupe of traveling actors performing in frontier melodramas across the country.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Black Panther Party
Service to the People Programs
The Black Panther Party has responded to the needs of various communities underserved by government agencies by providing social services ranging from food and educational programs to medical care.
- Copyright year: 2008
Rabbit and the Well
Ji-Stu the Rabbit thinks he's very clever but discovers he has outsmarted himself.
- Copyright year: 2008
Hecho en Tejas
An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature
Gilb has created more than a literary anthology--this is a mosaic of the cultural and historical stories of Texas Mexican writers, musicians, and artists.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya
The myth and ceremony of Maya beliefs have been sustained for over five hundred years in spite of massacres, persecution, and discrimination.
- Copyright year: 2008
Pottery and Practice
The Expression of Identity at Pottery Mound and Hummingbird Pueblo
Eckert illustrates how the relationship between ethnicity, migration, and ritual practice combined to create a complexly patterned material culture among residents of two fourteenth-century Pueblo villages.
- Copyright year: 2008
Map of the Lost
Sagan charts the exploration of the soul on this home called planet earth.
- Copyright year: 2008
Canyon Gardens
The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest
A new look at Puebloan landscaping techniques and uses of plants and how they can influence modern architects in the Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Language of Blood
The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s
A discussion of the emergence of Hispano identity among the Spanish-speaking people of New Mexico during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Copyright year: 2008
Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821
A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Migrant Project
Contemporary California Farm Workers
Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Cherokee Nation
A History
Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.
- Copyright year: 2007
Mountain Time
A Yellowstone Memoir
Schullery's heartfelt reflections on his relationship to the wildness of Yellowstone Park.
- Copyright year: 2008
Myth of the Hanging Tree
Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico
Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2008
Antonio's Gun And Delfino's Dream
True Tales of Mexican Migration
These stories of real people who have immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico show how they have changed their new country and how they are changed by it.
- Copyright year: 2008
Salvation Through Slavery
Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
Stockel examines the brutal history of forced conversion and subjection of the Chiricahua Apaches by Spanish priests during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2008
A Cherokee Encyclopedia
Conley has compiled a guide to historical and contemporary members of the Cherokee tribe and their roles in their clans and nations.
- Copyright year: 2007
Weaving Women's Lives
Three Generations in a Navajo Family
Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Allen Site
A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska
Recent research on the intriguing Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska and the nearby Medicine Creek sites has revealed a wealth of new information on the land and animal use of the early inhabitants.
- Copyright year: 2007
Powwow's Coming
Cut-paper collage illustrations and engaging verse give young readers a new look at American Indian culture today.
- Copyright year: 2007
Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies
Revealing Their Natural History
For both visitors and natural history buffs, this book includes seventy-five examples of some of the most common and conspicuous wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains from southern Wyoming to New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2007