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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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Wisdom Sits in Places

Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

University of New Mexico Press

Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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San Antonio de Béxar

A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

A beautifully written history of the development of San Antonio in colonial Texas.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Lady's Choice

Ethel Waxham's Journals and Letters, 1905-1910

University of New Mexico Press

A rich portrait of a woman's life in the American West of the early 1900s--a love story that reads like a novel.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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The Myth of Santa Fe

Creating a Modern Regional Tradition

University of New Mexico Press

Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Spider Woman

A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters

University of New Mexico Press

This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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The Navajos in 1705

Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal

Edited and translated by Rick Hendricks and John P. Wilson
University of New Mexico Press

This book is a significant contribution to Navajo studies providing the earliest eighteenth-century eyewitness account of the Navajo in New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Rethinking American Indian History

University of New Mexico Press

Using innovative methodologies and theories to rethink American Indian history, this book challenges previous scholarship about Native Americans and their communities.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Breath on the Mirror

Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya

University of New Mexico Press

A book of Mayan myths that inhabit the landscape and language, the ruined citadels and living towns of Mayan people in the highlands of Guatemala.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Hungry Lightning

Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela

University of New Mexico Press

A personal view not only of a people whose life as savannah foragers is unique and fast-disappearing, but of the thoughts and actions of a young woman researcher during the hardest, and most exciting time in her life.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Tonto's Revenge

Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy

University of New Mexico Press

Strickland argues that Indians can better sustain their worldview through law and culture, by remaining true to their heritage, tradition, and spirituality.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Wide Ruins

Memories from a Navajo Trading Post

University of New Mexico Press

This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Earth's Mind

Essays in Native Literature

University of New Mexico Press

Inspired by Chief Joseph's statement that "the Earth and myself are of one mind," Dunsmore studies the works of major Native writers and their connection with the natural world.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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