New Mexico Death Rituals

Author : Ana Pacheco
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142076

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New Mexico Death Rituals: A History by Ana Pacheco Pdf

New Mexico's harsh terrain, countless wars and epidemics were a challenging and fascinating environment for the many cultures and peoples who settled there. When tragedy struck, their faith and religious rituals allowed them to mourn, celebrate and commemorate their dead. From Pueblo Indians and Spanish colonists to Jewish immigrants and American veterans, many old traditions have endured and blended into modern society. The area is also home to many unique death sites, including the graves of Smokey Bear and Billy the Kid, and the largest contemporary collection of human bones in the world. Author Ana Pacheco guides you through the history of Christmas death rituals, roadside descansos, communal smallpox graves, Civil War memorials and more.

Author : Ana Pacheco
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439668603

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New Mexico Death Rituals by Ana Pacheco Pdf

A look at the Land of Enchantment’s burial customs, from the Pueblo Indians and Spanish colonists to Jewish immigrants and American veterans. New Mexico’s harsh terrain, countless wars and epidemics were a challenging and fascinating environment for the many cultures and peoples who settled there. When tragedy struck, their faith and religious rituals allowed them to mourn, celebrate and commemorate their dead. From Pueblo Indians and Spanish colonists to Jewish immigrants and American veterans, many old traditions have endured and blended into modern society. The area is also home to many unique death sites, including the graves of Smokey Bear and Billy the Kid, and the largest contemporary collection of human bones in the world. Author Ana Pacheco guides you through the history of Christmas death rituals, roadside descansos, communal smallpox graves, Civil War memorials and more./

Author : Martina Will
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826341655

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Death and Dying in New Mexico by Martina Will Pdf

In this exploration of how people lived and died in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century New Mexico, Martina Will weaves together the stories of individuals and communities in this cultural crossroads of the American Southwest. The wills and burial registers at the heart of this study provide insights into the variety of ways in which death was understood by New Mexicans living in a period of profound social and political transitions. This volume addresses the model of the good death that settlers and friars brought with them to New Mexico, challenges to the model's application, and the eventual erosion of the ideal. The text also considers the effects of public health legislation that sought to protect the public welfare, as well as responses to these controversial and unpopular reforms. Will discusses both cultural continuity and regional adaptation, examining Spanish-American deathways in New Mexico during the colonial (approximately 1700–1821), Mexican (1821–1848), and early Territorial (1848–1880) periods.

Author : Ray John de Aragón
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614237013

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Hidden History of Spanish New Mexico by Ray John de Aragón Pdf

New Mexico's Spanish legacy has informed the cultural traditions of one of the last states to join the union for more than four hundred years, or before the alluring capital of Santa Fe was founded in 1610. The fame the region gained from artist Georgia O'Keefe, writers Lew Wallace and D.H. Lawrence and pistolero Billy the Kid has made New Mexico an international tourist destination. But the Spanish annals also have enriched the Land of Enchantment with the factual stories of a superhero knight, the greatest queen in history, a saintly gent whose coffin periodically rises from the depths of the earth and a mysterious ancient map. Join author Ray John de Aragón as he reveals hidden treasure full of suspense and intrigue.

Author : Harvey Stein
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Mexico
ISBN : 3868288481

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Mexico by Harvey Stein Pdf

In his masterful photo series Harvey Stein explores a country of incredible contrasts and contradictions.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199373550

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The Craft of Ritual Studies by Ronald L. Grimes Pdf

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of ritual. Grimes exposes the limitations that disable many theories of ritual--for example, defining ritual as essentially religious, assuming that ritual's only function is to generate group solidarity, or treating ritual as a mirror of the status quo. He provides a guide for fieldwork on complex ritual events, particularly those characterized by social conflict or cultural creativity. The volume includes a case study, focusing on a single complex event: the Santa Fe Fiesta, a New Mexico celebration marked by protracted ethnic conflict and ongoing dramatic creativity. Grimes develops such themes as the relation of ritual to media, theater, and film, the dynamics of ritual creativity, the negotiation of ritual criticism, and the impact of ritual on cultural and physical environments. This important book, the capstone work of Grimes's three decades of leadership in the field of ritual studies, is accompanied by a set of online videos, as well as appendices illustrating key aspects of ritual studies.

Author : Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0306462605

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Encyclopedia of Prehistory by Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures.

Author : Sandra L. Bertman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Death
ISBN : 1560322233

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Facing Death by Sandra L. Bertman Pdf

This work draws upon material from the visual arts, poetry, fiction, drama, and pop-culture to help lead the reader to a heightened awareness of the universal nature of the issues that face the dying and those who care for them. The author argues.

Author : Sarah Tarlow,Liv Nilsson Stutz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191650383

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial by Sarah Tarlow,Liv Nilsson Stutz Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.

Author : Sandra L. Bertman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135059170

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Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions by Sandra L. Bertman Pdf

Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.

Author : Claudio Lomnitz-Adler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173016589849

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Death and the Idea of Mexico by Claudio Lomnitz-Adler Pdf

The history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death--the elevation of death to the center of national identity.Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican-American identity politics, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz's innovative study marks a turning point in understanding Mexico's rich and unique use of death imagery. Unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans, whose denial of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people display and cultivate a jovial familiarity with death. This intimacy with death has become the cornerstone of Mexico's national identity. Death and Idea of Mexico focuses on the dialectical relationship between dying, killing, and the administration of death, and the very formation of the colonial state, of a rich and variegated popular culture, and of the Mexican nation itself. The elevation of Mexican intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a moment within that history--within a history in which the key institutions of society are built around the claims of the fallen. Based on a stunning range of sources--from missionary testimonies to newspaper cartoons, from masterpieces of artistic vanguards to accounts of public executions and political assassinations--Death and the Idea of Mexico moves beyond the limited methodology of traditional historiographies of death to probe the depths of a people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes the very terms of its social compact.

Author : Marta Weigle,Peter White
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826331572

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The Lore of New Mexico by Marta Weigle,Peter White Pdf

This award-winning text on New Mexico folklore traditions is now available in a shorter edition.

Author : S. Bergmann,H. Bedford-Strohm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351915670

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Nature, Space and the Sacred by S. Bergmann,H. Bedford-Strohm Pdf

Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different concepts of religion, theology, space and place and their internal relations are discussed in an impressive range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity of perspectives, this book presents an innovative and truly transdisciplinary environmental science. Its broad range offers a rich exchange of insights, methods and theoretical engagements.

Author : Walter Hutchinson
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 8172681704

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Customs of the World by Walter Hutchinson Pdf

Author : C. Riley Augé
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800735040

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Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic by C. Riley Augé Pdf

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines. Instruction and templates for recording, typologizing, classifying, and analyzing ritual or magico-religious material culture are also provided to guide researchers in the survey, collection, and cataloging processes. The bulleted formatting and topical range make this a highly accessible work, while providing an incredible wealth of information in a single volume.