UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS

(P/B) THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE
The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. "Little Tree" as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, ...
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(P/B) NATIONAL RHYTHMS. AFRICAN ROOTS
When John Charles Chasteen learned that Simon Bolivar, the Liberator, danced on a banquet table to celebrate Latin American independence in 1824, he tried to visualise the scene. How, he wondered, did the Liberator dance? Did he bounce stiffly in his dress uniform? Or did he move his hips? In other words, how high had African dance influences reached in Latin American societies? A vast social gap separated Bolivar from people of African descent; however, Chasteen's research shows that popular culture could bridge the gap. Fast-paced and of...
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(H/B) ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS

ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY (H/B)

(P/B) LILUS KIKUS AND OTHER STORIES
Erroneously considered a children's book when it was first published in 1954, this sprightly child's-eye critique of adult society was decades ahead of its time. Today Elena Poniatowska is acclaimed as one of Mexico's greatest writers, but fifty years ago she was an unknown feminist at a time when feminism was out of fashion. As a result Lilus Kikus has not received the critical attention it deserved, and this is its first publication in English. Drawings by the great surrealist Leonora Carrington embody Lilus's view of life. Accompanying ...
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(P/B) UNAFFECTED BY THE GOSPEL (0826335586)
The Osage were fierce warriors who seized control of most of present-day Missouri and Arkansas hi conflicts with other tribes. Against Euro-American invaders, however, they adopted nonviolent resistance. Even though their territory steadily diminished, and the tribe was relocated to a small strip in northern Oklahoma, the tribe's cultural and religious beliefs and practices survived. Willard Hughes Rollings claims Osage nonviolent resistance was a successful strategy for cultural preservation. By avoiding war they avoided military defeat a...
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(H/B) CHEROKEE NATION: A HISTORY
The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He then explores their relations with neighboring Indian groups and European missionaries and settlers. He traces their forced migrations west, relates their participations on both sides of the Civil War and the wars of the twenti...
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(P/B) EMILIANO ZAPATA! (0826316204)

(H/B) BROTHERS BORDELLOS AND BAD GIRLS (0826333427)

(P/B) INTIMATE FRONTIERS (0826319548)
This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags -those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States- Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea journeys, and in San Francisco. In these settings Hurtado explores courtship, marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and women -whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chi...
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(P/B) INDIANS FRANCISCANS AND SPANISH COLONIZATION ( 0826317537

(P/B) THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION 1910-1940 (082632780X)

(P/B) MADAM MILLIE