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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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Fire from the Andes

Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru

University of New Mexico Press

South American women authors look at the female experience.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Gift of Life

Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru

University of New Mexico Press

This remarkable work of anthropology breaks new ground in the study of Latin American female shamanism.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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A Garlic Testament

Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

University of New Mexico Press

Meditations on growing garlic and on the farming way of life.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Que vivan los tamales!

Food and the Making of Mexican Identity

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Native American Identities

From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature

University of New Mexico Press

An engaging study of stereotypes and archetypes of Native Americans in fiction and art.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Blood on the Boulders

The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1694-1697

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Iguana Killer

Twelve Stories of the Heart

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Bone Voyage

A Journey in Forensic Anthropology

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Cuentos de Cuanto Hay

Tales from Spanish New Mexico

Translated by Joe Hayes; Introduction by J. Manuel Espinosa
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Fly-Fishing in Southern New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

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
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