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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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Hummingbirds of North America

Attracting, Feeding, and Photographing

University of New Mexico Press

A fully illustrated guide, keyed state by state, to all 16 species of North American hummers, including all of their personal quirks and habits.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father

Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting

University of New Mexico Press

Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Aldo Leopold's Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

Gathers the pre-Sand Country Almanac writings of Aldo Leopold, showing that he was not born an ecologist, but evolved over time through experimentation and thought.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Ghost Singer

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Indian remains in the Smithsonian cause ghosts to haunt, torment, and murder researchers--even as they themselves are tormented by the items in the museum's collection.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Regional Markets and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia

Cochabamba, 1539-1960

University of New Mexico Press

Examines the end of the colonial era in Bolivia.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains

A Hiking Guide and History

University of New Mexico Press

A richly illustrated guide to the trails of this unique and varied western New Mexico area.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Living Life's Circle

Mescalero Apache Cosmovision

University of New Mexico Press

The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life's Circle is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form "templates" for life in particular cultures.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Antigua California

Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768

University of New Mexico Press

This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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We Fed Them Cactus

University of New Mexico Press

Documents the daily activities of Hispanic pioneers--buffalo hunting, horse breaking, sheep herding, preparing and preserving food, sewing, tending the sick, and educating children are included in this rich recuerdo, as well as stories of Comancheros, Tejanos, Americanos, and outlaws.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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To the Royal Crown Restored

The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-1694

University of New Mexico Press
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An Unsettled Country

Changing Landscapes of the American West

University of New Mexico Press

In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History

University of New Mexico Press

This volume supplements the standard accounts of New Mexico history and will reward readers seeking to understand the complex nature of contemporary New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Conflict and Change in Cuba

University of New Mexico Press

The thirteen original essays in this volume explore the dynamics of continuity, conflict, and change in Cuba. Analyzed here are the historical trends and patterns of conflict in Cuba compared to contradictions that inevitably arise in any political system.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Tierra Amarilla

Stories of New Mexico / Cuentos de Nuevo Mexico

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 1993
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Mayordomo

Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This memoir of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879

The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

By Herman Lehmann; Edited by J. Marvin Hunter; Foreword by Dale F. Giese
University of New Mexico Press

It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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The Boy Who Made Dragonfly

A Zuni Myth

University of New Mexico Press

A Zuni myth first recorded a century ago.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Taking the Wheel

Women and the Coming of the Motor Age

University of New Mexico Press

Scharff looks at women's struggles to be accepted as drivers.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Zuni Man-Woman

University of New Mexico Press

The life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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A History of the Jews in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this first history of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial period to the present day--the author continuously ties the Jewish experience to the evolution of the societies in which they lived and worked.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Stopping Time

A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe

University of New Mexico Press

The Tahoe basin--then and now.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Old Oraibi

A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1944, Old Oraibi is an ethnographic classic, offering a sensitive portrayal of Hopi traditional culture.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Time and the Highland Maya

University of New Mexico Press

Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quiché Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Acoma

Pueblo in the Sky

University of New Mexico Press

A comprehensive history of the Acoma sanctioned by the tribe.

  • Copyright year: 1991
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Navaho Folk Tales

University of New Mexico Press

In this marvelous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many folk tales she heard during long winter evenings at Blue Mesa.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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New Mexico's Railroads

A Historical Survey

University of New Mexico Press

From narrow-gauge lines to Amtrak, this railroad lover's book shows the importance of trains to New Mexico's heritage.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Chicano Politics

Reality and Promise 1940-1990

University of New Mexico Press

How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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The Problem of Order in Changing Societies

Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay

University of New Mexico Press

The six essays in this volume examine Argentina from the eighteenth century to the 1930s and Uruguay during the nineteenth century to show the links between crime and the social and economic order.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Termination and Relocation

Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960

University of New Mexico Press

A major study of the effects on American Indians of the termination and relocation policies instituted during the Truman and Eisenhower era.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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High Noon in Lincoln

Violence on the Western Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

"In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West."--Richard Maxwell Brown author of Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism

  • Copyright year: 1990
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