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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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Anasazi Architecture and American Design

Edited by Baker H. Morrow and V. B. Price; Foreword by Robert C. Heyder
University of New Mexico Press

A journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde balancing observations of past architectural and cultural achievements with suggestions and recommendations for design practices in the present.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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The Circuit

Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

University of New Mexico Press

A collection of twelve short stories presented from the perspective of a young boy, in which the author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in a family of Mexican migrant farmworkers.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Inhabited Wilderness

Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska

University of New Mexico Press

A history of the national parks in Alaska and how they protect the natural ecosystems while allowing certain populations to use the parks to maintain their cultural traditions.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Earth's Mind

Essays in Native Literature

University of New Mexico Press

Inspired by Chief Joseph's statement that "the Earth and myself are of one mind," Dunsmore studies the works of major Native writers and their connection with the natural world.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Wide Ruins

Memories from a Navajo Trading Post

University of New Mexico Press

This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Tonto's Revenge

Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy

University of New Mexico Press

Strickland argues that Indians can better sustain their worldview through law and culture, by remaining true to their heritage, tradition, and spirituality.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Hungry Lightning

Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela

University of New Mexico Press

A personal view not only of a people whose life as savannah foragers is unique and fast-disappearing, but of the thoughts and actions of a young woman researcher during the hardest, and most exciting time in her life.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Breath on the Mirror

Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya

University of New Mexico Press

A book of Mayan myths that inhabit the landscape and language, the ruined citadels and living towns of Mayan people in the highlands of Guatemala.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Rethinking American Indian History

University of New Mexico Press

Using innovative methodologies and theories to rethink American Indian history, this book challenges previous scholarship about Native Americans and their communities.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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The Navajos in 1705

Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal

Edited and translated by Rick Hendricks and John P. Wilson
University of New Mexico Press

This book is a significant contribution to Navajo studies providing the earliest eighteenth-century eyewitness account of the Navajo in New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Spider Woman

A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters

University of New Mexico Press

This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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The Myth of Santa Fe

Creating a Modern Regional Tradition

University of New Mexico Press

Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Lady's Choice

Ethel Waxham's Journals and Letters, 1905-1910

University of New Mexico Press

A rich portrait of a woman's life in the American West of the early 1900s--a love story that reads like a novel.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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San Antonio de Béxar

A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

A beautifully written history of the development of San Antonio in colonial Texas.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Wisdom Sits in Places

Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

University of New Mexico Press

Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization

The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians

University of New Mexico Press

A readable and succinct account of how Indians fared under their Spanish Franciscan colonizers.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Andele, The Mexican-Kiowa Captive

A Story of Real Life Among the Indians

University of New Mexico Press

A captivity narrative that provides eyewitness accounts of the twilight years of Kiowa freedom on the Plains, and early reservation life.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Indian Uprising on the Rio Grande

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

By Franklin Folsom; Introduction by Alfonso Ortiz
University of New Mexico Press

A thrilling account of the bloody rebellion forged by the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish invaders.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Chicana Creativity and Criticism

New Frontiers in American Literature

University of New Mexico Press

Poetry, art, and criticism by major Chicana writers and artists.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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La Mollie and the King of Tears

University of New Mexico Press

A posthumous novel by the pioneering Chicano fiction writer--a tragi-comic tale revealing a new side to Arturo Islas's talent.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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A Rich Land, a Poor People

Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas

University of New Mexico Press

Benjamin delineates the basic continuity in the history of Chiapas from the 1890s to 1995.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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A Place in El Paso

A Mexican-American Childhood

University of New Mexico Press

This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who beg from commuters passing back and forth to Juárez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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The Place Names of New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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The Way to the West

Essays on the Central Plains

University of New Mexico Press

Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus

University of New Mexico Press

Robert Levine tells the story of Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), Brazilian, Black, illegitimate, extremely poor, and Brazil's best-selling author upon the publication of her journals.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Literature and Photography

Interactions 1840-1990 : A Critical Anthology

University of New Mexico Press

"Baudelaire Meets Poe," Jane Rabb has gathered the first and last words about photographs and photography.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Emiliano Zapata!

Revolution and Betrayal in Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This clearly written and carefully argued narrative presents a less mythical and more human Zapata against the dramatic and chaotic background of the Mexican Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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John Muir

Life and Work

Edited by Sally M. Miller
University of New Mexico Press

The insights of the historians, literary critics, philosophers, and scientists presented here provide readers with a greater appreciation for Muir's multidimensional personality and his contributions to the preservation movement.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Heroes on Horseback

A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos

University of New Mexico Press

A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Tribes and Tribulations

Misconceptions About American Indians and Their Histories

University of New Mexico Press

Hauptman selects topics from the 17th century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white relationships, including stereotypes of Indians as mascots.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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