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.
Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism
Alongside the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi’s development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced religio-cultural projects, Hucks weaves historical and sociological analyses of the relationship between black cultural nationalism and reinterpretations of the meaning of Africa from within the African American community.
- Copyright year: 2012
New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexicano
Treasures of a People/El Tesoro del Pueblo
This bilingual panoramic book presents the songs that are the life’s work of Cipriano Frederico Vigil, the most important performer of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2014
Meaningful Places
Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West
The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest
A Self-Portrait of a People
First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music, composer John Donald Robb.
- Copyright year: 1980
Wings for My Flight
The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock, Updated Edition
First published in 1991 and winner of several national awards, this book chronicles Marcy Cottrell Houle’s work at Chimney Rock along with the recovery of the once endangered peregrine falcon.
- Copyright year: 1991
The Goldilocks Zone
"The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today’s poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us."—Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
- Copyright year: 2014
The Deportation of Wopper Barraza
A Novel
After Wopper Barraza’s fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his deportation and now he has to move back to Michoacán. His story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored literary territory.
- Copyright year: 2014
O'Keeffe
Days in a Life
"Carol Merrill’s tribute to Georgia O’Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O’Keeffe’s final years in New Mexico."—Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses
- Copyright year: 1996
Native Brazil
Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil’s native peoples shaped their own histories.
- Copyright year: 2014
Cormac McCarthy
New Directions
Critics have been quick to address Cormac McCarthy’s indebtedness to southern literature, Christianity, and existential thought, but the essays in this collection are among the first to tackle such issues as gender and race in McCarthy’s work.
- Copyright year: 2002
Philmont
A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country
This classic account is the first and still the best comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1972
Inside the New Mexico Senate
Boots, Suits, and Citizens
In this forthright account of the workings of New Mexico’s legislature, Dede Feldman reveals how the work of governing is actually accomplished.
- Copyright year: 2014
Wilderness
Debra Bloomfield engaged for five years on a photographic project in the wilderness. After photographing the desert in Four Corners and the ocean in Still, she has moved on in this new book to the forest.
- Copyright year: 2014
Correspondence Analysis and West Mexico Archaeology
Ceramics from the Long-Glassow Collection
- Copyright year: 2013
Cables, Crises, and the Press
The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866-1903
- Copyright year: 2013
Beyond the Eagle's Shadow
New Histories of Latin America's Cold War
- Copyright year: 2013
Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910
- Copyright year: 2013
The Shoshoneans
The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition
- Copyright year: 1966
Mexico's Supreme Court
Between Liberal Individual and Revolutionary Social Rights, 1867-1934
- Copyright year: 2013
Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn
The Collected Letters
The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.
- Copyright year: 2013
Violent Delights, Violent Ends
Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
- Copyright year: 2013
Red or Green
New Mexico Cuisine
- Copyright year: 2007
New Mexico Cuisine
Recipes from the Land of Enchantment
- Copyright year: 2009
Easter Island's Silent Sentinels
The Sculpture and Architecture of Rapa Nui
- Copyright year: 2013
Capturing the Women's Army Corps
The World War II Photographs of Captain Charlotte T. McGraw
- Copyright year: 2013
No Settlement, No Conquest
A History of the Coronado Entrada
Flint takes a new look at the Coronado entrada of 1539-42 that marked the earliest large-scale contact between Europeans and Native Americans in what is now the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2008
Sagrado
A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland
- Copyright year: 2013
Hotel Mariachi
Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles
- Copyright year: 2013
The Pancake Stories
Cuentos del Panqueque
- Copyright year: 2013
The Grandchildren of Solano López
Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904–1936
- Copyright year: 2013
The Bare-toed Vaquero
Life in Baja California's Desert Mountains
- Copyright year: 2013
New Mexico's Reptiles and Amphibians
A Field Guide
- Copyright year: 2013
A Walk Around the Horizon
Discovering New Mexico's Mountains of the Four Directions
- Copyright year: 2013
The Young Neurosurgeon
Lessons from My Patients
- Copyright year: 2013
Oy, My Buenos Aires
Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity
- Copyright year: 2013
Southwest Aquatic Habitats
On the Trail of Fish in a Desert
- Copyright year: 2013
For God and Revolution
Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca
- Copyright year: 2013
Detonography
The Explosive Art of Evelyn Rosenberg
- Copyright year: 2013