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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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Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film

University of New Mexico Press

This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Pious Imperialism

Spanish Rule and the Cult of Saints in Mexico City

University of New Mexico Press

This book analyzes Spanish rule and Catholic practice from the consolidation of Spanish control in the Americas in the sixteenth century to the loss of these colonies in the nineteenth century by following the life and afterlife of an accidental martyr, San Felipe de Jésus.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Medicine Women

The Story of the First Native American Nursing School

University of New Mexico Press

In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Governing Gifts

Faith, Charity, and the Security State

University of New Mexico Press

Ultimately the book aims to expand the parameters of what has typically been a US-centric discussion of faith-based interventions as it explores the concepts of faith, charity, security, and governance within a global perspective.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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A Most Splendid Company

The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective

University of New Mexico Press

This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint's deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado expedition in 1540.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

This classic hiking guide to Albuquerque's Sandia Mountain is completely updated with color photographs, up-to-date trail descriptions, detailed maps, additional GPS data, and modified difficulty ratings for many of the featured hikes.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide Map, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

This full-color map of the mountain, printed on waterproof and tear resistant paper,has been updated to accompany the Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Reckless Steps toward Sanity

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Throughout her memoir Gelt reflects upon how risk taking has shaped her relationships with and her attitudes toward men and sex, her daughter, Judaism, and her own eventual diagnosis of major depressive disorder.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Land of Nuclear Enchantment

A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry

University of New Mexico Press

In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Jai Alai

A Cultural History of the Fastest Game in the World

University of New Mexico Press

Paula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the sport's power and spectacle.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy

A Rare Photographic History

University of New Mexico Press

This engaging and unprecedented work captures the compelling story of John F. Kennedy's role in advancing the United States' space program, set against the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion

Archaeological Perspectives

University of New Mexico Press

This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Spooky Archaeology

Myth and the Science of the Past

University of New Mexico Press

By exploring the development of archaeology, this book helps us understand what archaeology is and why it matters.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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I Am a Stranger Here Myself

University of New Mexico Press

Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Equal under the Sky

Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism

University of New Mexico Press

Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America

Studies of Production and Exchange through Compositional Analysis

University of New Mexico Press

This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors utilize insights gained from studies on cancer to extend structural vulnerability beyond its original conceptualization to encompass spatiality, temporality, and biosocial shifts in both individual and institutional arrangements.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Cabañuelas

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

In Cantú's latest novel Nena must decide where she can best be true to her entire self: in Spain with Paco or in Laredo, her home, where her job and family await her return.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The News as Usual

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

The News as Usual showcases the work of a gifted poet who employs language at its richest.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Shrines and Miraculous Images

Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico

Three Texts in Context

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Ballad of a Slopsucker

Stories

University of New Mexico Press

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
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After Party

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico

World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Why Should I Write a Poem Now

The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958

Edited by Graziano Krätli; Foreword by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; Afterword by Paul Mariani
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Tides of Revolution

Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality

Gendering War and Politics in Cuba

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Presences

A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Imagine a City That Remembers

The Albuquerque Rephotography Project

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Powerful Places in the Ancient Andes

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Citizens and Believers

Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930

University of New Mexico Press

This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan

Edited by Paul F. Reed and Gary M. Brown; Foreword by David Grant Noble
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Exchanging Words

Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica

Archaeology as Historical Anthropology

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Puebloan Societies

Homology and Heterogeneity in Time and Space

University of New Mexico Press

Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected here.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Esteban

The African Slave Who Explored America

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Cutting the Wire

Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border

By (photographer) Bruce Berman; By Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh; Edited by Lisa McNiel; Introduction by David Dorado Romo
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Sandia

Seasons of a Mountain

University of New Mexico Press

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
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