New Mexico Death Rituals: A History, Paperback - Ana Pacheco

Reducere. New Mexico's harsh terrain, countless wars and epidemics were a challenging and fascinating environment for the many cultures and peoples who settl...

Reducere. As early as 1851, photographers journeyed along the arduous Santa Fe Trail on horseback and in covered wagons on a quest to capture the magnificent...

Reducere. DescriptionAs early as 1851, photographers journeyed along the arduous Santa Fe Trail on horseback and in covered wagons on a quest to capture the ...

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in...

A timely and definitive narrative history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the Middle East. Ideal for anyone seeking to...

In this exploration of how people lived and died in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century New Mexico, Martina Will de Chaparro weaves together the st...

Reducere. 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 ove...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marc SimmonsFor all who love New Mexico, and for those who aspire to know the state, this book is a graceful and compelling...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): William G. (Baylor University, Texas, USA) HoyIllustration(s): 10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustra...

Reducere. A rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal that New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century's best known write...

Reducere. Many non-New Mexicans envision New Mexico as one large desert, yet New Mexico is very much a mountain state, with more than one hundred named mount...

Reducere. First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relatio...

Reducere. This useful guidebook surveys more than eighty ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from the Uni...

Reducere. This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive ...

Reducere. There have been many histories of New Mexico written for the general public in recent years. However, New Mexico Past and Future approaches the sta...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this first history of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial period to the present day--the author continuously ties the Jewish ex...

New B-format paperback - The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the med...

Reducere. This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Aga...

Reducere. Ovida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3: 00 on ...

Reducere. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of li...

Reducere. "The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine. . . . From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamer...

Reducere. Winner of the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Photography from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Winner of the 2015 Southwest Book Awar...

Reducere. Kit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family l...

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA...

Reducere. From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a favourite not on...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

Originally published in 1992 and available now only from UNM Press, An Illustrated History of New Mexico combines more than two hundred photographs...

Reducere. Jesus' Death in New Testament Thought is unlike anything written on the subject to date. It represents a radical break with the traditional models ...

Reducere. Tres Ritos was first settled by the Jornada Mogollon in AD 900, and these ancient farmers left their presence in the form of more than twenty-one t...

Reducere. In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which...

Death welcomes everyone. This is the foundation for the veneration of Santa Muerte, or ``Holy Death.`` Considered to be the female personification ...

Reducere. New Mexico comes alive in these fascinating stories about events that helped make New Mexico what it is today. From the life and times of Folsom Ma...

Reducere. This new edition of Donald L. Baars's classic The Colorado Plateau incorporates new text, maps, photographs, figures, tables, and bibliography to p...

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in peopl...

Reducere. This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona has become a classic. Based on the life of the author's mother, it overturns every stereotype of weste...

Reducere. Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of M...

Reducere. Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ra...

Reducere. To some, chile might be considered a condiment, but in New Mexico it takes center stage. Going back four centuries, native tribes, Spanish missiona...

Reducere. New Mexico's night sky generated speculation about alien visitation for centuries before the Roswell Incident of 1947. But the luminous spheres kno...

Reducere. This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the le...

Reducere. An updated edition of a seminal work on the history of land ownership in the Southwest In New Mexico--once a Spanish colony, then part of Mexico--P...

Jesus' Death in New Testament Thought is unlike anything written on the subject to date. It represents a radical break with the traditional models ...

Reducere. DescriptionPaula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the...

Reducere. New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect set...

Reducere. Memories of Torreon, New Mexico is a collection of stories about the people of Torreon, New Mexico by the people of Torreon, edited by Judy Alderet...

Reducere. 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 b...

Reducere. Between 1539 and 1542, two thousand indigenous Mexicans, led by Spanish explorers, made an armed reconnaissance of what is now the American Southwe...

Reducere. Since 1970, Mr. Streit has been New Mexico's foremost fly fishing authority and professional guide. He's developed many fly patterns used throughou...

Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This book tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in...

Reducere. Collected and highly valued all over the world, Navajo weaving has been the subject of many aesthetic and historic studies. Grounded in archival re...