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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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The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology

University of New Mexico Press

This exploration of Iberian, Latin American, and US-Hispanic representations of Christ focuses on outliers in art, literature, and theology: Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco, Argentine writer Jorge Borges, Spanish existentialist Miguel de Unamuno, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way

Cooking with Tall Woman

University of New Mexico Press

Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way is the first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Navajos from the earliest known times into the present and relate them to the Navajo Nation’s participation in the food sovereignty movement.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Fifty Years at the Pit

The University of New Mexico's Legendary Venue

By Gary Herron; Foreword by Hunter Greene
University of New Mexico Press

With almost two hundred color photographs, this illustrative explosion shows you the players, the plays, the coaches, and the sold-out crowds dressed in red.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Curious Disciplines

Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood

University of New Mexico Press

Foregrounding Loy’s critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, and "Degenerate" artisthood, and exploring her poetic legacies today, Curious Disciplines reveals Loy’s importance in an entirely novel way.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Woodswork

New and Selected Stories of the American West

University of New Mexico Press

These stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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60 Short Hikes in the Sandia Foothills

University of New Mexico Press

This book introduces sixty short hikes in the public lands on the eastern edge of the city of Albuquerque.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Into the Great White Sands

By (photographer) Craig Varjabedian
University of New Mexico Press

Varjabedian's photographs reveal snow-white dunes of gypsum, striking landforms, storms and stillness, panoramic vistas and breathtaking sunsets, intricate wind-blown patterns in the sand, ancient animal tracks, exquisite desert plants, and also the people who come to experience this place that is at once spectacular yet subtle.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Buffalo Cactus and Other New Stories from the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

Revealing the Southwest as home to some of the most entertaining writers in twenty-first century fiction, this collection features a wonderfully diverse array of authors, including Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Ron Carlson, José Skinner, Tacey M. Atsitty, and Kirstin Valdez Quade.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez

A New Mexico Renaissance Man

University of New Mexico Press

Ellen McCracken provides a literary biography that includes a deep look into the intellectual and cultural contributions of this Renaissance man. McCracken moves chronologically through a substantial body of work that includes fiction, poetry, plays, essays, spiritual tracts, sermons, historical writing, translation, painting, church renovation, and journalism.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Sawbill

A Search for Place

University of New Mexico Press

By chronicling her migratory adulthood alongside the similarly unpredictable history of Sawbill Lodge, this memoir offers a resonant meditation on home, family, environment, and the human desire for place in the inherently mobile twenty-first century.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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MINE

Essays

University of New Mexico Press

Mining her own life and those of others, Sarah Viren considers the contingencies of ownership alongside the realities of loss in this debut essay collection.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome

University of New Mexico Press

In this unusual book an evolutionary anthropologist and her coauthor/granddaughter, who has Asperger syndrome, examine the emergence and spread of Asperger syndrome and other forms of high-functioning autism.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico

Miguel de Quintana's Life and Writings

Edited and translated by Francisco A. Lomelí and Clark A. Colahan; Foreword by Luis Leal
University of New Mexico Press

In this fascinating volume Lomelí and Colahan reveal Quintana's writings from deep within Inquisition archives and provide a translation of and critical look at Quintana's poetry and religious plays.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Rain Scald

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental verse to create an intricate landscape she invites readers to explore.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Image to Insight

The Art of William Hart McNichols

University of New Mexico Press

This book comprises a selection of William Hart McNichols's popular icons and sacred images into a single collection.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Cosas

Folk Art Travels in Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Love and friendship, art and craft, language and culture are the subjects of this look back at one woman's experiences in Mexico over a period of twenty years.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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A Song of Dismantling

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In this dynamic debut collection, Fernando Pérez employs lyric and nonce forms to interrogate identity politics and piece together a complex family history.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Catherwood Project

Incidents of Visual Reconstructions and Other Matters

By (photographer) Leandro Katz; By Jesse Lerner
University of New Mexico Press

The work of Argentine photographer Leandro Katz is presented here in dialogue with the nineteenth-century artist Frederick Catherwood, whose images of Maya ruins have fascinated viewers for more than a century.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories

Native American Women's Autobiography

University of New Mexico Press

Portillo analyzes traditional autobiographies and memoirs alongside interviews and social media to explore the intricacies of Native American women's voices and the stories that they share.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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