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.
We Fed Them Cactus
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
Antigua California
Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768
This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.
- Copyright year: 1994
Living Life's Circle
Mescalero Apache Cosmovision
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
El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains
A Hiking Guide and History
A richly illustrated guide to the trails of this unique and varied western New Mexico area.
- Copyright year: 1994
Regional Markets and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
Cochabamba, 1539-1960
Examines the end of the colonial era in Bolivia.
- Copyright year: 1994
Ghost Singer
A Novel
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
Aldo Leopold's Southwest
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
Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father
Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting
Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.
- Copyright year: 1995
Hummingbirds of North America
Attracting, Feeding, and Photographing
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
Tribes and Tribulations
Misconceptions About American Indians and Their Histories
Hauptman selects topics from the 17th century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white relationships, including stereotypes of Indians as mascots.
- Copyright year: 1995
Heroes on Horseback
A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos
A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.
- Copyright year: 1995
John Muir
Life and Work
The insights of the historians, literary critics, philosophers, and scientists presented here provide readers with a greater appreciation for Muir's multidimensional personality and his contributions to the preservation movement.
- Copyright year: 1995