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 News as Usual
Poems
The News as Usual showcases the work of a gifted poet who employs language at its richest.
- Copyright year: 2019
Shrines and Miraculous Images
Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma
William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines, and devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma.
- Copyright year: 2010
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico
Three Texts in Context
Consisting of three rare documents about miracles from this period, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study serves as a source book and complement to the author's Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma.
- Copyright year: 2011
Ballad of a Slopsucker
Stories
Based in Northern California and examining a variety of themes, including love, family, and masculinity, these stories offer an important new perspective on the experiences of Latinos and Latinas in the United States and complicate ideas of nationhood, identity, and the definition of home.
- Copyright year: 2019
After Party
Poems
By turns funny and heartbreaking, flirtatious and frank, Blaustein never lets his aggravation or confusion overwhelm his sense of gratitude for the life he leads and those he loves.
- Copyright year: 2019
The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico
World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State
Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played an important part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime.
- Copyright year: 2014
Why Should I Write a Poem Now
The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958
Their intense epistolary relationship between Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters.
- Copyright year: 2018
Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico
In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.
- Copyright year: 2018
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses.
- Copyright year: 2018
Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality
Gendering War and Politics in Cuba
By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Presences
A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition
Now in a new edition, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol's monumental pop-art sculptures face the blocks of Creeley's prose poems.
- Copyright year: 2018
Imagine a City That Remembers
The Albuquerque Rephotography Project
This expanded and updated collection juxtaposes historic and contemporary photographs of Albuquerque to show diverse moments in the city's history and development.
- Copyright year: 2018
Powerful Places in the Ancient Andes
This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean political and religious history but to rethinking sociological theories on landscapes more generally.
- Copyright year: 2018
Citizens and Believers
Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930
This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution.
- Copyright year: 2018
Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan
The contributors to this book attribute the development of Salmon and Aztec to migration and colonization by people from Chaco Canyon and that the Middle San Juan can be seen as one of the ancient Puebloan heartlands that made important contributions to contemporary Puebloan society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Exchanging Words
Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park
This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors.
- Copyright year: 2018
Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica
Archaeology as Historical Anthropology
This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology’s most crucial goals.
- Copyright year: 2018
Puebloan Societies
Homology and Heterogeneity in Time and Space
Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected here.
- Copyright year: 2018
Esteban
The African Slave Who Explored America
In this work Herrick dispels the myths and outright lies about Esteban. His biography emphasizes Esteban rather than the Spaniards whose exploits are often exaggerated and jingoistic in the sixteenth-century chronicles.
- Copyright year: 2018
Cutting the Wire
Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border
Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States.
- Copyright year: 2018
Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America
The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
- Copyright year: 2018
Sandia
Seasons of a Mountain
This portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque's sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photographer and the words of a writer.
- Copyright year: 2018
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Writer's Portable Mentor
A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition
Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought.
- Copyright year: 2018
Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West
This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the Westâ€"from California to Montana to New Mexicoâ€"serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.
- Copyright year: 2018
Below Freezing
Elegy for the Melting Planet
Below Freezing is a unique assemblage of scientific fact, newspaper reports, and excerpts from novels, short stories, nonfiction, history, creative nonfiction, and poetry--a commonplace book for our era of altering climate.
- Copyright year: 2018
A Persistent Revolution
History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Handyman's Guide to End Times
Poems
In Morales's newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative.
- Copyright year: 2018
Social Skins of the Head
Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes
The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject.
- Copyright year: 2018
No More Bingo, Comadre!
Stories
It takes all kinds to populate Northern New Mexico, and this book has every one: from gypsies and gamblers to ranchers and criminals.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
This book argues that ethnic and racial tension brought on by the fighting in the borderland made Anglo-Texans feel justified in their violent actions against Mexicans.
- Copyright year: 2017
Sacred Smokes
This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians.
- Copyright year: 2018
Gather the Night
Poems
These poems grieve for a world of the lost while extending solace to those who remain and remember.
- Copyright year: 2018
New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences
Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs.
- Copyright year: 2018
Cynical Citizenship
Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
This anthropological study of grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil's leftist hotspot, focuses on gender, politics, and regionalism during the early 2000s, when the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) was in power.
- Copyright year: 2018
Gabriela Mistral's Letters to Doris Dana
These letters, published in Spanish in 2010 and now translated for the first time into English, provide insight into her work as a poet and illuminate her perspectives on politics, especially war and human rights.
- Copyright year: 2018
Murder in Mérida, 1792
Violence, Factions, and the Law
This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries' imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid.
- Copyright year: 2018
Fictions of Western American Domesticity
Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950
This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?
- Copyright year: 2018
Colonial New Mexican Families
Community, Church, and State, 1692–1800
In this book Suzanne M. Stamatov skillfully relies on both ecclesiastical and civil records to discover how families formed and endured during this period of contention in the eighteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Films of Clint Eastwood
Critical Perspectives
As a collection, these essays show that none of these themes account for Eastwood's entire vision, which is multifaceted and often contradictory, dramatizing complex issues in powerful, character-driven narratives.
- Copyright year: 2018
Banana Cowboys
The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.
- Copyright year: 2018
Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime
This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics.
- Copyright year: 2018
Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo
The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project
This book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning financial support took their toll.
- Copyright year: 2018
Island, River, and Field
Landscape Archaeology in the Llanos de Mojos
John H. Walker's innovative study of the Bolivian Amazon examines the agricultural landscape and analyzes the earthworks from an archaeological perspective.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology
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
Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way
Cooking with Tall Woman
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
Fifty Years at the Pit
The University of New Mexico's Legendary Venue
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
Curious Disciplines
Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood
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
Woodswork
New and Selected Stories of the American West
These stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West.
- Copyright year: 2018
60 Short Hikes in the Sandia Foothills
This book introduces sixty short hikes in the public lands on the eastern edge of the city of Albuquerque.
- Copyright year: 2018