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.
Return to Abo
Niederman's first novel finds a cosmopolitan woman returning to her small ranching community roots and struggling with memories.
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Ambassador Ortiz
Lessons from a Life of Service
Ambassador Ortiz's memoir of over four decades in the U.S. foreign service, including behind-the-scenes encounters with international leaders.
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Una Historia de Nuevo Mexico
Traducion directa de la tercera edicion
The resource guide, for the Spanish edition, includes lesson plans keyed to the state's instructional standards for social studies, answers to section and chapter reviews, four different types of student activity worksheets, tests and answer keys, bibliographies, and resource suggestions.
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Dance Ceremonies of the Northern Rio Grande Pueblos
This guide contains detailed descriptions of and background for many Pueblo Indian ceremonies that occur year-round in New Mexico.
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Memory and Architecture
An international study of cultural relationships with built environments.
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The Story of Corn
This interweaving of folklore, history, and science tells the seven-century story of the importance of corn in the Americas.
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The Santero's Miracle
A Bilingual Story
This bilingual story of a grandfather's and grandson's faith, hope, and love is to be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
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Death, Dismemberment, and Memory
Body Politics in Latin America
The long history of the politically symbolic use of the bodies, or body parts, of martyred heroes in Latin America.
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Completing the Union
Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Battle for Statehood
The story of the thirteen-year effort to add the 49th and 50th states to the Union.
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Una Historia de Nuevo Mexico
Traducción directa de la tercera edición
Este libro introduce los estudiantes que leen y hablan en espanol a la historia del estado de Nuevo Mexico.
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New Mexico!
Mindful that the student reading this book is probably learning about New Mexico history for the first time, this volume's abundant illustrations and engaging text will spark and sustain readers' interest.
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Troweling Through Time
The First Century of Mesa Verdean Archaeology
Florence Lister, one of archaeology's eminent authorities, presents the long and colorful history of exploration in the Mesa Verde area of the American Southwest.
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Women and Gender in the American West
The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.
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Western Lives
A Biographical History of the American West
The life stories of many individuals are woven together to tell the history of the American West from the earliest days of westward expansion to the twentieth century.
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Dutra's World
Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
The impact of slavery in 19th century Brazil is examined through the life of one typical slave owner who was also a former slave.
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Delivery
A Novel
Ben Daitz's first novel is situated at the intersection of the best of intentions and the worst of consequences, uniting the diverse strands of life in the modern Southwest.
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Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610
A Critical and Annotated Spanish/English Edition
Villagra's epic poem of Oñate's entry into New Mexico in 1598 is available again in this beautiful bilingual edition.
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Embedded Symmetries
Natural and Cultural
Scholars representing several disciplines examine how patterns and symmetry are expressed and resonate in a variety of man's creations and cultures.
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Ol' Max Evans
The First Thousand Years
In this biography of Max Evans, learn why Charles Champlin, Entertainment Arts editor emeritus, Los Angeles Times said, "Max Evans is one of these guys you can take anywhere . . . and still be ashamed of him."
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Coyote Morning
A Novel
This story of the conflicts between humans and coyotes reminds us to reflect on our relationship with the natural world.
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The Souls of Purgatory
The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesus
This translation of part of the diary of a 17th century Peruvian mystic includes the convent life of slaves and former slaves and baroque Catholic spiritual experiences from the perspective of a woman of color.
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Tortuga
A Novel
Anaya shares his memories of the incident which inspired Tortuga in the new Afterword of this 25th anniversary edition of his literary classic.
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New Mexican Tinwork, 1840-1940
A beautifully illustrated book on the origins and history of traditional Hispanic tinwork.
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Navaho Trading Days
A collection of photographs and first-hand observations of life among the Navaho and Hopi in the early 20th century. "A most valuable historical resource."-American Indian Quarterly
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Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants
The critically acclaimed 110-minute film Alambrista (1977) depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border. For this release, a group of scholars has packaged a new director's cut of the film with a book of essays devoted to immigration and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and an enhanced CD of the sound track.
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Tools of Progress
A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present
This history of Casa Boker, one of the first department stores in Mexico City, and its German owners provides important insights into Mexican and immigration history since the late nineteenth century.
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The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City
Performing Power and Identity
This cultural history examines the functions of public rituals in colonial Mexico City, often totaling as many as 100 celebrations in a year.
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Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument
Village Formation on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico
These essays summarize the results of new excavation and survey research at Bandelier National Monument, with special attention to determining why larger sites appear when and where they do, and how life in these later villages and towns differed from life in the earlier small hamlets that first dotted the Pajarito in the mid-1100s.
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Talking Mysteries
A Conversation with Tony Hillerman
In Talking Mysteries, Tony Hillerman discusses his craft, including his approach to plot, characterization, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists that make his brand of fiction unique.
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New Buffalo
Journals from a Taos Commune
Kopecky's journals take us back to the beginnings of New Buffalo, one of the most successful of the communes that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s, where he and his comrades encountered magic, wisdom, a mix of people, the Peyote Church, planting, and hard winters.
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