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 Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez
A New Mexico Renaissance Man
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
Sawbill
A Search for Place
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
MINE
Essays
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
Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome
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
Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico
Miguel de Quintana's Life and Writings
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
Rain Scald
Poems
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
Image to Insight
The Art of William Hart McNichols
This book comprises a selection of William Hart McNichols's popular icons and sacred images into a single collection.
- Copyright year: 2018
Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr
A Novel
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
Cosas
Folk Art Travels in Mexico
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
A Song of Dismantling
Poems
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
The Catherwood Project
Incidents of Visual Reconstructions and Other Matters
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
Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories
Native American Women's Autobiography
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
Imagining Persons
Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson
These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan's vision of modernist writing.
- Copyright year: 2017
Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica
Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions
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
An Open Map
The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson
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
Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America
Synoptic Methods and Practices
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
The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos
Change and Stability
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
Santa Fe
The Chief Way
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
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
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
More Argentine Than You
Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in Argentina
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
Early Churches of Mexico
An Architect's View
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
Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones
A Food History of the Southwest
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
Terraria Gigantica
The World under Glass
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
Lock and Load
Armed Fiction
This masterful and thought-provoking collection moves beyond the polarized rhetoric surrounding firearms to spark genuine discussion.
- Copyright year: 2017
Skiing New Mexico
A Guide to Snow Sports in the Land of Enchantment
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
Eco-Travel New Mexico
86 Natural Destinations, Green Hotels, and Sustainable Adventures
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
Westlands
A Water Story
Showcasing California's Central Valley, Westlands uses documentary photography to examine the danger drought and water policies represent to farming.
- Copyright year: 2017
Firelines
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
Critical Assembly
Poems of the Manhattan Project
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
A History of Boxing in Mexico
Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism
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
The Best from New Mexico Kitchens
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
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
In true Schaefer fashion, Stubby Pringle delights readers and fills our hearts with the magic and spirit of Christmas.
- Copyright year: 1963
Stewart L. Udall
Steward of the Land
This book, the first biography of Udall, introduces his work to a new generation of Americans concerned with the environment.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Kean Land and Other Stories
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
Monte Walsh
Originally published in 1963, Monte Walsh continues to delight readers as a Western classic and popular favorite.
- Copyright year: 1963
Mavericks
"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
Madcap Masquerade
A Novel
"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
Company of Cowards
"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
Black Sheep, White Crow and Other Windmill Tales
Stories from Navajo Country
"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
To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America
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
Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul
Sor María de Ágreda Comes to New Mexico/Sor María de Ágreda viene a Nuevo México
Sisters in Blue tells the story of two young women--one Spanish, one Puebloan--meeting across space and time.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Pioneers
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
The Olson Codex
Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs
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
The Collected Letters of Charles Olson and J. H. Prynne
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
The Big Range
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
Shane
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
Latin American Women Filmmakers
Social and Cultural Perspectives
This book highlights the voices and stories of Latin American women directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2017
First Blood and Other Stories
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
Corruption in the Iberian Empires
Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks
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
Volver
A Persistence of Memory
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