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.
Tamarind
Forty Years
An essential addition to the library of anyone concerned with contemporary printmaking.
- Copyright year: 2000
She-Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales
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
Madres del Verbo/Mothers of the Word
A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.
- Copyright year: 2000
Wisconsin Death Trip
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
Bones, Boats, and Bison
Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America
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
The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property
Whose Culture? Whose Property?
Explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artifacts.
- Copyright year: 1999
Tangled Destinies
Latin America and the United States
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
Sonora
An Intimate Geography
This informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, is now available in paperback.
- Copyright year: 1999
La musica de los viejitos
Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte
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
The Suppression of Salt of the Earth
How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in the American Cold War
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
Tombstone
An Iliad of the Southwest
A mixture of fact and fiction, this is the book that defined Wyatt Earp's legend as a gunfighter-lawman.
- Copyright year: 1999
The Saga of Billy the Kid
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
The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar
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
Six Neuvomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season
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
Horizontal Yellow
Nature and History in the Near Southwest
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
Cuentos from Long Ago
A bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offering the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years.
- Copyright year: 1999
CrashBoomLove
A Novel in Verse
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
Chasing Shadows
Apaches and Yaquis Along the United States-Mexico Border, 1876-1911
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
American Indian Grandmothers
Traditions and Transitions
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
The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
An American Tragedy
This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and it's effects on both tribes.
- Copyright year: 1999