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.
Fire from the Andes
Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
South American women authors look at the female experience.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Gift of Life
Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
This remarkable work of anthropology breaks new ground in the study of Latin American female shamanism.
- Copyright year: 1998
A Garlic Testament
Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
Meditations on growing garlic and on the farming way of life.
- Copyright year: 1998
Que vivan los tamales!
Food and the Making of Mexican Identity
This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present.
- Copyright year: 1998
Native American Identities
From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature
An engaging study of stereotypes and archetypes of Native Americans in fiction and art.
- Copyright year: 1998
Blood on the Boulders
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1694-1697
Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico’s formative era in this boxed set.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Iguana Killer
Twelve Stories of the Heart
Set along the Southwestern border, these stories explore growing up Hispanic and weaving together three distinct worlds--Mexico, the United States, and childhood.
- Copyright year: 1998
Bone Voyage
A Journey in Forensic Anthropology
A lively account of the role of the forensic anthropologist in the Office of the Medical Investigator--recovering bodies, establishing identities, and solving the puzzles of death.
- Copyright year: 1998
Cuentos de Cuanto Hay
Tales from Spanish New Mexico
A collection of traditional New Mexican Hispanic folktales gathered from the oral tradition in 1931 and translated by famed storyteller Joe Hayes.
- Copyright year: 1998
Fly-Fishing in Southern New Mexico
An overview of the streams of Southern New Mexico that support trout, the natural history of the streams, and the habitats of the trout that live there.
- Copyright year: 1998