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.
Private Passions and Public Sins
Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima
A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.
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Four and Twenty Photographs
Stories from Behind the Lens
One of the West's most eloquent photographers shares his favorite images and his stories of how they came to be.
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Bluefeather Fellini
This classic of American fiction tells the story of the travels of Bluefeather Fellini, a half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian who always returns to his mother's home in Taos, New Mexico.
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Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache
Abáachi Mizaa Ilkee' Siijai
The first large-scale dictionary of any of the Eastern Apachean languages.
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Tortilla Chronicles
Growing Up in Santa Fe
The traditional Hispanic culture of 1950s Santa Fe comes alive through the members of the hardworking Romero family.
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The Shaman and the Water Serpent
Dewey tells the stories of early Puebloan peoples and their reverance for the land and animals on which their survival depended.
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Sing My Whole Life Long
Jenny Vincent's Life in Folk Music and Activism
"This lady is a big breath of hope in a cynical age."--from the Introduction by John Nichols
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Native American Life-History Narratives
Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography
The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.
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Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers
Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.
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The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806-1807
This valuable and long-out-of-print edition of Pike's Southwestern journals is being reissued on the bicentennial of the journey with a new Introduction by historian Mark L. Gardner.
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Legend and Lore of the Guadalupe Mountains
These tales of the mountains, mines, and characters of the Guadalupe range were collected over many years by the author who has explored the area since he was a boy.
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Hip to the Trip
A Cultural History of Route 66
Dedek paints a complex portrait of America's most famous highway.
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Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West
A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.
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Tombstone's Treasure
Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
The silver rush in Tombstone, Arizona, created one of the most sophisticated towns in the American West, complete with lavish saloons, gambling, ice cream parlors, and a swimming pool.
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The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution
The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920
The authors document the secret role of the Mexican president in the insurgency against Anglos during the Mexican Revolution and the Texas Rangers' role in ending the uprising.
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The Ecuador Effect
Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.
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Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt
Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World
Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and Native American scholars offer new views of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that emphasize the transformative roles of material culture in mediating Pueblo Indian strategies of resistance and Colonial Spanish structures of domination.
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D'Arcy McNickle's The Hungry Generations
The Evolution of a Novel
This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American Indian literature.
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Diseases and Human Evolution
Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.
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Breaking Through Mexico's Past
Digging the Aztecs with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
The life of celebrated Mexican archaeologist Moctezuma tells of a man rising to the challenges of life and a man who has eloquently spoken to the the importance of understanding the roots of civilization.
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Bitter Harvest
The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910
The agrarian revolution beginning in 1910 in rural Morelos helped shape Mexican society for the rest of the twentieth century.
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The Taos Truth Game
This entertaining novel brings writer Myron Brinig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the avant garde of 1930s Taos back to center stage.
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All Aboard for Santa Fe
Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s
How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.
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Following the Royal Road
A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Jackson brings to life this important route which the Spanish extended north into present-day New Mexico in 1598.
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Spanish for Mental Health Professionals
A Step by Step Handbook
This handbook will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients.
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From Sovereign Villages to National States
City, State, and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839
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
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
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
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
The experiences of a young woman who was the first band instructor in a remote fishing village in 1950s Alaska.
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