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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 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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Imagining Persons

Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson

University of New Mexico Press

These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan's vision of modernist writing.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica

Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions

University of New Mexico Press

Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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An Open Map

The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

University of New Mexico Press

The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after Robert Duncan and Charles Olson first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America

Synoptic Methods and Practices

University of New Mexico Press

Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos

Change and Stability

University of New Mexico Press

This volume provides the definitive record of a decade of archaeological investigations at San Marcos, ancestral home to Kewa (formerly Santo Domingo) and Cochiti descendants.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Santa Fe

The Chief Way

University of New Mexico Press

Santa Fe: The Chief Way is a fresh and nostalgic look at the streamliners of the Santa Fe railroad from the late thirties to the early seventies.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire

University of New Mexico Press

Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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More Argentine Than You

Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in Argentina

University of New Mexico Press

Hyland shows how Syrians and Lebanese, Christians, Jews, and Muslims adapted to local social and political conditions, entered labor markets, established community institutions, raised families, and attempted to pursue their individual dreams and community goals in early twentieth century Argentina.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Early Churches of Mexico

An Architect's View

University of New Mexico Press

Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones

A Food History of the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Terraria Gigantica

The World under Glass

By (photographer) Dana Fritz; Introduction by William L. Fox; Epilogue by Rebecca Reider
University of New Mexico Press

In a new approach to environmental photography, Dana Fritz explores the world's largest enclosed landscapes: Arizona's Biosphere 2, Cornwall's Eden Project, and Nebraska's Lied Jungle and Desert Dome at the Henry Doorly Zoo.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Lock and Load

Armed Fiction

University of New Mexico Press

This masterful and thought-provoking collection moves beyond the polarized rhetoric surrounding firearms to spark genuine discussion.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Skiing New Mexico

A Guide to Snow Sports in the Land of Enchantment

By Daniel Gibson; Foreword by Jean Mayer
University of New Mexico Press

This invaluable book tells you everything there is to know about skiing and snowboarding in the Land of Enchantment, with thousands of helpful details on the state's downhill ski resorts and cross-country and backcountry venues.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Eco-Travel New Mexico

86 Natural Destinations, Green Hotels, and Sustainable Adventures

University of New Mexico Press

Ashley M. Biggers's guide delves into the heart of this enchanting land--from stunning natural landscapes to vital cultural areas that give New Mexico its distinctive character.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Westlands

A Water Story

By (photographer) Randi Lynn Beach; Introduction by Thomas Holyoke
University of New Mexico Press

Showcasing California's Central Valley, Westlands uses documentary photography to examine the danger drought and water policies represent to farming.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Firelines

By Jill Metcoff; Foreword by Curt Meine
University of New Mexico Press

Jill Metcoff pairs her photographs from controlled burns with historical commentary, poetic reflections, and her own observations to construct a vibrant narrative of prose and imagery.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Critical Assembly

Poems of the Manhattan Project

University of New Mexico Press

With technical mastery and remarkable empathy, Canaday introduces readers to the people involved in the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb, from initial theoretical conversations to the secretive work at Los Alamos.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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A History of Boxing in Mexico

Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism

University of New Mexico Press

This book reveals how boxing and boxers became sources of national pride and sparked debates on what it meant to be Mexican, masculine, and modern.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Best from New Mexico Kitchens

University of New Mexico Press

Savor and share the joys of New Mexican cooking as you prepare more than one hundred dishes from across the state in this remarkable collection of outstanding recipes.

  • Copyright year: 1978
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Stubby Pringle's Christmas

By Jack Schaefer; Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund
University of New Mexico Press

In true Schaefer fashion, Stubby Pringle delights readers and fills our hearts with the magic and spirit of Christmas.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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Stewart L. Udall

Steward of the Land

University of New Mexico Press

This book, the first biography of Udall, introduces his work to a new generation of Americans concerned with the environment.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Kean Land and Other Stories

University of New Mexico Press

The classic Western short stories in this Jack Schaefer collection explore the changing and often challenging truths found throughout the American West.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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Monte Walsh

By Jack Schaefer; Foreword by Marc Simmons
University of New Mexico Press

Originally published in 1963, Monte Walsh continues to delight readers as a Western classic and popular favorite.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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Mavericks

By Jack Schaefer; Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund
University of New Mexico Press

"Unabashedly sentimental, this has some stunning scenes and a rhythm as smooth as a slow canter. And Old Jake, symbol of the best of the old West, leaves some indestructible memories."--Kirkus Reviews

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Madcap Masquerade

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"Madcap Masquerade builds delightfully on the venerable fiction tradition of romance gone crossways, mistaken identity, gender confusion, elaborate disguises, and meant-to-be lovers who keep missing connections."--Anne Hillerman, author of Rock with Wings

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Company of Cowards

University of New Mexico Press

"An elegiac account of one man who followed 'his own peculiar trail' out of the Civil War, and the crippled, unrecorded company that went with him."--Kirkus Reviews

  • Copyright year: 1957
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Black Sheep, White Crow and Other Windmill Tales

Stories from Navajo Country

University of New Mexico Press

"These tales capture the humor and themes of traditional Diné literature. . . . The collection resonates with deep cultural authenticity."--Enrique Lamadrid, author of Juan the Bear and the Water of Life: La Acequia de Juan del Oso

  • Copyright year: 2017
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To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America

Edited by Mónica Díaz
University of New Mexico Press

Focusing on central Mexico and the Andes (colonial New Spain and Peru), the contributors deepen scholarly knowledge of colonial history and literature, emphasizing the different ways people became and lived their lives as "indios" in this new study.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul

Sor María de Ágreda Comes to New Mexico/Sor María de Ágreda viene a Nuevo México

University of New Mexico Press

Sisters in Blue tells the story of two young women--one Spanish, one Puebloan--meeting across space and time.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Pioneers

University of New Mexico Press

Published throughout the early 1950s, these stories have captured our hearts and imaginations as true classics in Western fiction and will continue to do so time and time again.

  • Copyright year: 1954
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The Olson Codex

Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs

University of New Mexico Press

In The Olson Codex, Tedlock describes and examines Olson's efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson's work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Collected Letters of Charles Olson and J. H. Prynne

Edited by Ryan Dobran
University of New Mexico Press

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century transatlantic literary culture.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Big Range

University of New Mexico Press

In these memorable narratives Schaefer depicts the unique conflicts of settler life and captures the spirit of the resolute, willful, determined, and broken characters found on the Western frontier.

  • Copyright year: 1953
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Shane

By Jack Schaefer; Introduction by Robert Nott
University of New Mexico Press

In Shane, Schaefer executes a perfect Western narrative while exploring the overarching themes of virtue, the human condition, and a man's search for self.

  • Copyright year: 1949
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Latin American Women Filmmakers

Social and Cultural Perspectives

University of New Mexico Press

This book highlights the voices and stories of Latin American women directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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First Blood and Other Stories

University of New Mexico Press

First Blood, Schaefer's follow-up to Shane, tells the tale of Jess Harker, a young stagecoach driver finding his way in this coming-of-age story.

  • Copyright year: 1953
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Corruption in the Iberian Empires

Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Volver

A Persistence of Memory

University of New Mexico Press

In this book Márquez recounts his life story, from childhood memories of movies and baseball to the turbulent events of his manhood.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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