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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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Imagining Persons

Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson

University of New Mexico Press

These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan's vision of modernist writing.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica

Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions

University of New Mexico Press

Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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An Open Map

The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

University of New Mexico Press

The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after Robert Duncan and Charles Olson first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America

Synoptic Methods and Practices

University of New Mexico Press

Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos

Change and Stability

University of New Mexico Press

This volume provides the definitive record of a decade of archaeological investigations at San Marcos, ancestral home to Kewa (formerly Santo Domingo) and Cochiti descendants.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Santa Fe

The Chief Way

University of New Mexico Press

Santa Fe: The Chief Way is a fresh and nostalgic look at the streamliners of the Santa Fe railroad from the late thirties to the early seventies.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire

University of New Mexico Press

Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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More Argentine Than You

Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in Argentina

University of New Mexico Press

Hyland shows how Syrians and Lebanese, Christians, Jews, and Muslims adapted to local social and political conditions, entered labor markets, established community institutions, raised families, and attempted to pursue their individual dreams and community goals in early twentieth century Argentina.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Early Churches of Mexico

An Architect's View

University of New Mexico Press

Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones

A Food History of the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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