Books published by University of New Mexico Press

Peggy Pond Church, one of the great New Mexico authors of the twentieth century, wrote these stories for her own sons in the 1930s, and her daughter-in-law Elizabeth Church created the illustrations in the 1950s. Now at last they are published, both in the original English and in Noel Chilton's Spanish translation.

In 1929, Modotti was accused of the murder of Julio Antonio Mella, her Cuban lover. She fled to the USSR to escape the Mexican press and then to Europe, where she became a Soviet secret agent and a nurse under an assumed name, returning to Mexico to meet an early death at the age of forty-five.

Examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversible transformations in traditional Andean modes of production, technology, politics, religion, culture, and social hierarchies. At the same time, Professor Andrien explains how the indigenous peoples merged these changes with their own political, socio-economic, and religious traditions.

Prior to 1640, when the regular slave trade to New Spain ended, colonial Mexico was the second largest slaveholding society in the New World. Damned Notions of Liberty explores the lived experience of slavery from the perspective of slaves themselves to reveal how the enslaved may have conceptualized and contested their subordinated social positions in New Spain's middle colonial period.

Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier collections of poems.

Of the nearly 300,000 people who identified themselves as Navajo in the 2000 US Census, 178,014 identified themselves as speakers of Navajo. Poetry written and performed in both Navajo and English, continues to emerge as an important voice for Navajos. This study investigates the devices found in Navajo written and oral poetic traditions.

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance. This book describes its many aspects and explores its place within the lives of a variety of practitioners. It places Umbanda spiritual beliefs and practices within the broader context of Brazilian history and culture.