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.
Wisdom Sits in Places
Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.
- Copyright year: 1996
San Antonio de Béxar
A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier
A beautifully written history of the development of San Antonio in colonial Texas.
- Copyright year: 1996
Lady's Choice
Ethel Waxham's Journals and Letters, 1905-1910
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
The Myth of Santa Fe
Creating a Modern Regional Tradition
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
Spider Woman
A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters
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
The Navajos in 1705
Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal
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
Rethinking American Indian History
Using innovative methodologies and theories to rethink American Indian history, this book challenges previous scholarship about Native Americans and their communities.
- Copyright year: 1997
Breath on the Mirror
Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya
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
Hungry Lightning
Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela
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
Tonto's Revenge
Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy
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
Wide Ruins
Memories from a Navajo Trading Post
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
Earth's Mind
Essays in Native Literature
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