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.
The Lost Land
The Chicano Image of the Southwest
A fascinating intellectual history of Hispano self-perception, this book traces the changes in Hispano views of the Southwest from earliest times to the present, particularly since the 1848 signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
- Copyright year: 1984
Land of Enchantment
Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail
Facsimile edition of one of the few accounts of life on the trail.
- Copyright year: 1985
Desert Passages
Encounters with the American Deserts
Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.
- Copyright year: 1985
Filaree
A Novel of an American Woman
This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona has become a classic.
- Copyright year: 1996
Indian Rock Art of the Southwest
The comprehensive book on Indian petroglyphs in the Southwest.
- Copyright year: 1986
Visual Anthropology
Photography as a Research Method
This book provides reliable research methods from the systematic gathering of data through analysis of photographic records to transfer of insights to ethnographic records, with an emphasis on developing the skills of thorough observation rather than on technical skill.
- Copyright year: 1986
Mabel Dodge Luhan
New Woman, New Worlds
The definitive biography of a cultural icon.
- Copyright year: 1987
Edge of Taos Desert
An Escape to Reality
Autobiographical account describing Luhan's first months in New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1987
I Married a Soldier
Through her eyes we see the close-knit social life of an army post, the western frontier's divided response to the American Civil War, and the cultures and peoples of the West.
- Copyright year: 1987
Pieces of White Shell
Introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller.
- Copyright year: 1987