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.
Claims and Speculations
Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age
- Copyright year: 2012
An Imperative to Cure
Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize
James B. Waldram’s groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of "medicine" instead of "healing."
- Copyright year: 2020
Making History
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers--students, educators, collectors, and the public--in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors.
- Copyright year: 2020
Arizona's Scenic Roads and Hikes
Unforgettable Journeys in the Grand Canyon State
In this captivating new guide Roger Naylor features all twenty-seven of Arizona's state-designated scenic and historic roads, including five National Scenic Byways.
- Copyright year: 2020
Archaeologies of Empire
Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories
This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Unmasking
A Novel
"The Unmasking is smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender."—Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel
- Copyright year: 2020
Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement
Revisiting the History of the WNIA
This collection of essays offers a new interpretation of the WNIA's founding, argues that the WNIA provided opportunities for indigenous women, creates a new space in the public sphere for white women, and reveals the WNIA's role in broader national debates centered on Indian land rights and the political power of Christian reform.
- Copyright year: 2020
Shook
An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
Shook tells the story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.
- Copyright year: 2020
Chile Peppers
A Global History
In Chile Peppers: A Global History, Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of chiles around the world and their abundant uses in seventy mouth-tingling recipes.
- Copyright year: 2020
At the Precipice
New Mexico's Changing Climate
At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children?
- Copyright year: 2020
Where the Ox Does Not Plow
A Mexican American Ballad
Manuel Peña chronicles his transformative journey from migrant worker to academia in twenty-six poignant life episodes.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Book of Literary Terms
The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship, Second Edition
Chapters covering fiction, drama, nonfiction, and literary criticism and scholarship offer readers a comprehensive guide to all forms of prose and their many sub-genres.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Book of Forms
A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition
Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Book of Dialogue
How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry
The Book of Dialogue is an invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of effective dialogue.
- Copyright year: 2004
Ho! For Wonderland
Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914
These stories by early Yellowstone Park visitors helped propel the popularity of this American wonderland.
- Copyright year: 2009
Grief Land
Poems
In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one.
- Copyright year: 2020
Feel Puma
Poems
In Feel Puma, Ray Gonzalez traces his love of reading, philosophy, and learning with poems constantly in conversation—with each other, with texts by other writers and the writers themselves, with world history and his personal history and people he has encountered.
- Copyright year: 2020
Abiquiu
The Geologic History of O'Keeffe Country
With stunning photographs, timelines, and a regional geologic map, noted geologist Kirt Kempter explains the geologic story and landscape evolution of the region for travelers, hikers, and armchair geologists.
- Copyright year: 2020
Querencia
Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland
This collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies explores the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genízaro writers and scholars from across the state.
- Copyright year: 2020
LEGEND
The Complete Facsimile in Context
Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing.
- Copyright year: 2020