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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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Tamarind

Forty Years

Edited by Marjorie Devon
University of New Mexico Press

An essential addition to the library of anyone concerned with contemporary printmaking.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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She-Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales

Edited by Johnny Payne
University of New Mexico Press

These fables from highland Peru, presented in both Quechua and English, capture a rich oral tradition and illustrate many universal human themes.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Madres del Verbo/Mothers of the Word

Edited by Nina M. Scott
University of New Mexico Press

A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Wisconsin Death Trip

University of New Mexico Press

A shocking portrait of a small town crumbling--socially, morally, physically and emotionally--under the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This "cult classic" is now available again in paperback.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Bones, Boats, and Bison

Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America

University of New Mexico Press

This revolutionary synthesis dispels the stereotype of big game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge, while painting a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property

Whose Culture? Whose Property?

Edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger; Foreword by Brian Fagan
University of New Mexico Press

Explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artifacts.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Tangled Destinies

Latin America and the United States

University of New Mexico Press

Historical overview from both perspectives of the often-troubled and always uneven relationship between the United States and the nations of Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Sonora

An Intimate Geography

University of New Mexico Press

This informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, is now available in paperback.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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La musica de los viejitos

Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte

University of New Mexico Press

A companion set of audio compact discs to the text collecting examples of the musical forms used over the centuries in this often isolated and harsh but beautiful region of the Rio Rande. A blend of religious and secular music from sixteenth-century Spain, Mexican-influenced folk tunes, and melodies indigenous to the life of the region, the music covered here includes romances, trovos, cuandos and decimas, inditas, corridos, canciónes, ceremonial and religious music, and dance music.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Suppression of Salt of the Earth

How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in the American Cold War

University of New Mexico Press

Examines the conception, production, distribution, and suppression of the pioneering labor-feminist film made during the virulently anti-communist era of the Cold War.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Tombstone

An Iliad of the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

A mixture of fact and fiction, this is the book that defined Wyatt Earp's legend as a gunfighter-lawman.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Saga of Billy the Kid

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1926, this dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar

By Moacyr Scliar; Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press

From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology of powerful stories, bringing a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the English language.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Six Neuvomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season

University of New Mexico Press

This bilingual edition of these classic folk dramas is produced for both those acting in the plays, or for students of the literature.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Horizontal Yellow

Nature and History in the Near Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

Personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the large expanse of land the Navajos once named the Horizontal Yellow.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Cuentos from Long Ago

University of New Mexico Press

A bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offering the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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CrashBoomLove

A Novel in Verse

University of New Mexico Press

A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Chasing Shadows

Apaches and Yaquis Along the United States-Mexico Border, 1876-1911

University of New Mexico Press

Hatfield examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against the Apaches and other native peoples during the late nineteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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American Indian Grandmothers

Traditions and Transitions

University of New Mexico Press

These essays explore the complex world of grandmothers in Native America, where, although often impoverished and marginalized, they provide a vital connection to native identity, history, and wisdom.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

An American Tragedy

University of New Mexico Press

This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and it's effects on both tribes.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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