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.
A Poetry of Remembrance
New and Rejected Works
Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.
- Copyright year: 2009
Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin
Following two decades of excavations and research at the NAN Ranch Ruin in southwest New Mexico, Harry Shafer offers new information and interpretations of the rise and disappearance of the ancient Mimbres culture that thrived in the area from about A.D. 600 to 1140.
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Aftershocks
Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America
In using natural disasters as a way to study societal and especially political change, the essays in this volume illustrate the immediate as well as the long term consequences of destruction.
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Black Mexico
Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
This edited volume compiles the most recent research on a pivotal topic in Latin American history--Afro-Mexican experiences from pre-conquest to the modern period.
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Women's Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond
This study examines the vital role that women's labor and personal networks play, both within Mexico and transnationally, in assisting other women to migrate and in providing support for male family members as well.
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Hearing the Mermaid's Song
The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro
Based on personal experience as a participant and observer over nearly a decade, Hale explores the unique spiritual beliefs of this Afro-Brazilian religion originated in Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century.
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The Morganza, 1967
Life in a Legendary Reform School
Stuart describes the life of students and staff in this infamous school that was, in reality, a youth prison camp.
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Maya Yucatán
An Artist's Journey
These spectacular images document the beauty of the ancient sites of Yucatán and the enduring character of the Maya people still inhabiting the region.
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Building to Endure
Design Lessons of Arid Lands
How the long history of human settlement in the American Southwest can provide valuable lessons in addressing today's need to wisely use energy, water, and the land.
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How Shadows Are Bundled
An extraordinarily rich collection of poems, many of which explore what C.G. Jung referred to as the "shadow", that dark, usually hidden part of each of us.
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In the Presence of the Sun
Stories and Poems, 1961-1991
A collection of evocative and versatile works by the National Medal of Arts recipient.
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The Journey of Tai-me
This precursor to The Way to Rainy Mountain was originally published in a handmade edition in 1967 and has never before been commercially available.
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Rabbit and the Fingerbone Necklace
Does Ji-Stu meet his match in the crafty ravens, out to get his most prized possession?
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Santa Fe Nativa
A Collection of Nuevomexicano Writing
This anthology honors Santa Fe's role as the foundation of New Mexican Hispanic culture.
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Untold Sisters
Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works
In this revised edition of the first introduction to Hispanic convent culture published in the United States, the authors present the works of nuns going back to the sixteenth century.
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Country of Bullets
Chronicles of War
A respected journalist in Colombia chronicles the human stories of survival in the midst of the country's political and military violence.
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Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients
A Celebration of Five Centuries of Lore and Wisdom
Schullery ponders the great endless fish story we perpetuate and enrich every time we cast a fly.
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Texas Ranger Biographies
Those Who Served, 1910-1921
The biographies of all 1,782 Texas Rangers who served during the era of the Mexican Revolution are collected in one volume for the first time.
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The Tree Rings' Tale
Understanding Our Changing Climate
Science writer Fleck addresses one of the most important guiding principles for life in the arid West and one that scientists have long recognized: climate variability.
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Land of Disenchantment
Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico
This experimental study of cultural dysfunction in New Mexico's Española Valley tells the stories of several of its Nuevomexicano residents, both famous and notorious.
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Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics
"This book is about the ways that the how of the story and the what of the story are intertwined."--from the Introduction
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La Clínica
A Doctor's Journey Across Borders
Sklar recalls how his earliest experiences in a remote Mexican clinic helped shape his career as an emergency physician and educator.
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María of Ágreda
Mystical Lady in Blue
The intriguing story of the legendary "Lady in Blue" will be of interest to cultural and religious historians, as well as to women who have struggled for equality against all odds.
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Miners of the Red Mountain
Indian Labor in Potosi, 1545-1650
In this study Bakewell reexamines Indian-Spanish relations to suggest new aspects of the social and economic history of early colonial Peru.
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Picturing an Exhibition
The Family of Man and 1950s America
Examines a major photography exhibit and its connections with the politics and culture of the 1950s, and how the U.S.I.A. used it to project a view of American culture abroad.
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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute
The Memoirs of George A. Cowan
Cowan relates the details of his unique scientific career.
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Dance of the Eggshells
Baile de Los Cascarones
A little girl and her brother are introduced to the Baile de los Cascarones in this charming bilingual story of family and cultural tradition.
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Mother Jones
Raising Cain and Consciousness
The details of the life and work of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones are skillfully told here for those who have not heard her story and those who know it well.
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Dreaming the Biosphere
Reider tells the tangled tale of the creation, and eventual disintegration, of the experimental eco-utopia known as Biosphere 2.
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Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies
The Dry Fly and the Nymph, Evolution and Conflict
Through stories of numerous historical characters Black details the long debate among fly-fishing devotees on the relative merits of dry or wet flies.
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For Every Indio Who Falls
A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990
By following indigenous organizing experiences at multiple levels--local, regional, national, and international--this book explores how some Mayas became involved in political activism and opposition to a repressive state.
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The Rounders
This is the 50th anniversary edition of the western that made Max Evans famous.
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The Very Nature of God
Baroque Catholicism and Religious Reform in Bourbon Mexico City
Using wills and other testaments of faith, Larkin examines the complex efforts by secular and religious authorities to reform religious practice during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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This High, Wild Country
A Celebration of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
A colorful gift of words and art from two of the West's most knowledgeable and talented naturalists.
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Mexican Community Health and the Politics of Health Reform
This very human study of emerging medical services in Morelos, Mexico, illustrates the variety of grassroot solutions to health care delivery in response to rising costs and restrictions on access.
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Crash of TWA Flight 260
Williams documents the tragic crash of TWA Flight 260 in the Sandia Mountains in 1955 and the fifty years that he has spent unraveling the mysteries of the crash, many still unresolved today.
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Singing to the Plants
A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
This accessible study of ayahuasca shamanism introduces its ritual practices including healers' spiritual relationships with the native plants used in its ceremonies.
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Educational Reform in New Mexico
Tireman, San José, and Nambé
In the 1930s Loyd Tireman organized two experiments in cross-cultural education in New Mexico. These experiments were remarkably successful and anticipated contemporary trends, yet they remained unacknowledged and, until now, unstudied. Bachelor makes Tireman's insights available to modern teachers.
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Schools of Their Own
The Education of Hispanos in New Mexico, 1850-1940
Demonstrates how educational inequality persisted in a democracy and how Hispanos tried to secure more and better schools in New Mexico prior to 1940.
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Wolves at Our Door
A close-knit group of Anglo and Hispanic families struggle to keep their southern Arizona ranches alive amidst the dual threats of drug lords and smugglers.
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Bolitas de Oro
Poems from My Marble-playing Days
These vivid memories of the poet's life in rural New Mexico in the 50s were written first in Spanish then translated to English.
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Come with Me to Babylon
The saga of an early twentieth-century Russian Jewish family and how they learn to find hope amidst many disappointments in America.
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Hard Grass
Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch
These colorful tales highlight the complex relationships that comprise life in the rural West today.
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How Cities Won the West
Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.
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Land, Wind, and Hard Words
A Story of Navajo Activism
Because of his friendship with the Jacksons, Sherry was on the scene during the aftermath of the mysterious death of Leroy Jackson in 1993. His vivid account of the resulting journalistic feeding frenzy and heightened conflict on the reservation adds an unusual dimension to this intimate and unpretentious story.
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The War for Mexico's West
Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550
Altman has undertaken the challenging task of examining the Spaniards' attempt to conquer and settle the western region of Mexico (New Galicia).
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Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed
The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth
Monnett takes a closer look at the struggle between the mining interests of the United States and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations in 1866 that climaxed with the Fetterman Massacre.
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Allies at Odds
The Andean Church and its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671
Explores the vital, often conflictive role indigenous agents played in the creation of Andean Christian society.
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Invitation to an Execution
A History of the Death Penalty in the United States
These original essays examine the complex history of the death penalty, focusing on specific geographic areas to illuminate the circumstances of law and politics.
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Los Alamos
The Ranch School Years, 1917-1943
Wirth and Aldrich examine the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. In existence between the two World Wars, the school's curriculum combined a robust outdoor life with a rigorous academic program mirroring the Progressive Era's quest for perfection.
- Copyright year: 2010