University Of New Mexico Press imprint: 489 books
Laguna Pueblo
A Photographic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon’s photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna...
by Stacy B. Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade. She and her husband were the first federally licensed peyote dealers. They began harvesting and selling the sacramental plant to followers of the Native...
LIFE Story
The Education of an American Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Before Americans got their news from television, they got it from LIFE, the weekly magazine that set the standard for photojournalism. In LIFE Story Gerald Moore—a writer and editor who worked at the magazine in the last glory years before TV made it obsolete—recalls the dizzying excitement and...
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism...
Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples
Fabric Structure and Color Symmetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century. Nevertheless, these artifacts remain mysterious in many respects. Teague and Washburn examine these sandals as sources of information...
by Philip VanderMeer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Whether touted for its burgeoning economy, affordable housing, and pleasant living style, or criticized for being less like a city than a sprawling suburb, Phoenix, by all environmental logic, should not exist. Yet despite its extremely hot and dry climate and its remoteness, Phoenix has grown into...
Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones
A Food History of the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest. He traces the origins of the cuisine to the arrival of humans in the Americas, the work of the earliest farmers of Mesoamerica, and the most ancient trade...
Golden States of Grace
Prayers of the Disinherited
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Taking California as a window into the diversity of religion in America, Golden States of Grace documents marginalized communities at prayer in their own faith traditions. The collection is thoroughly interfaith, introducing us to the nation's only halfway house for addicts self-identified as Jewish,...
Hotel Mariachi
Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889 landmark “Hotel Mariachi,” where musicians have lived and gathered on the adjacent plaza for more than half a century. This book is a photographic and ethnographic study of the mariachis, Mariachi Plaza de Los Angeles, and the neighborhood....
With a Book in Their Hands
Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Literary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known as reader-response theory. Does the text guide the reader?...
Volver
A Persistence of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Born on the eve of World War II into a family of Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Antonio C. Márquez remains a child of the border, his life partaking of multiple cultures, countries, and classes. Here he recounts his life story, from childhood memories of movies and baseball and friendship with his...
by Steven Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Although millions of slaves were forcibly transported from Africa to Brazil, the languages the slaves brought with them remain little known. Most studies have focused on African contributions to Brazilian Portuguese rather than on the African languages themselves. This book is unusual in focusing...
by Janet Floyd
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as...
by Benjamin Radford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Among the monsters said to roam the world’s jungles and desolate deserts, none is more feared than the chupacabra—-the blood-sucking beast blamed for the mysterious deaths of thousands of animals since the 1990s. To some it is a joke; to many it is a very real threat and even a harbinger of the...