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.
Citizens and Believers
Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930
This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution.
- Copyright year: 2018
Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan
The contributors to this book attribute the development of Salmon and Aztec to migration and colonization by people from Chaco Canyon and that the Middle San Juan can be seen as one of the ancient Puebloan heartlands that made important contributions to contemporary Puebloan society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Exchanging Words
Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park
This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors.
- Copyright year: 2018
Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica
Archaeology as Historical Anthropology
This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology’s most crucial goals.
- Copyright year: 2018
Puebloan Societies
Homology and Heterogeneity in Time and Space
Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected here.
- Copyright year: 2018
Esteban
The African Slave Who Explored America
In this work Herrick dispels the myths and outright lies about Esteban. His biography emphasizes Esteban rather than the Spaniards whose exploits are often exaggerated and jingoistic in the sixteenth-century chronicles.
- Copyright year: 2018
Cutting the Wire
Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border
Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States.
- Copyright year: 2018
Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America
The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
- Copyright year: 2018
Sandia
Seasons of a Mountain
This portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque's sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photographer and the words of a writer.
- Copyright year: 2018
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.
- Copyright year: 2018