Death and Dying in New Mexico

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In this exploration of how people lived and died in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century New Mexico, Martina Will de Chaparro weaves together the stories of individuals and communities on this cultural crossroads of the American Southwest. The wills and burial registers on the heart of this study provide insights into the number of ways wherein death used to be 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 definitely the right. The text also considers the effects of public health legislation that sought to give protection to the public welfare, in addition to responses to those controversial and unpopular reforms. Will discusses both cultural continuity and regional adaptation, examining Spanish-American deathways in New Mexico all over the colonial (approximately 1700-1821), Mexican (1821-1848), and early Territorial (1848-1880) periods.

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