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Native wills from the colonial Americas : dead giveaways in a new world

Title
  1. Native wills from the colonial Americas : dead giveaways in a new world / edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt.
Published by
  1. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]
  2. ©2016

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Additional authors
  1. Christensen, Mark Z.
  2. Truitt, Jonathan G., 1977-
Description
  1. xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  1. To 1821
  2. Indians of Mexico > History
  3. Indians of Central America > History
  4. Wills > Mexico
  5. Wills > Central America
  6. Indians of Central America
  7. Indians of Mexico
  8. Wills
  9. Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810
  10. Central America > History > To 1821
  11. Central America
  12. Mexico
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction / Jonathan Truitt and Mark Christensen -- Part I. Women of native America -- Catalina de Agüero: a mediating life / Karen B. Graubart -- Born oceans apart: the joint testament of a Chino slave and his Mulata wife / Tatiana Seijas -- Revelations on Mexico Tenochtitlan: the 1648 testament of Nicolasa Juana / Jonathan Truitt -- Portrait of a Mixtec woman named 6-Crocodile / Kevin Terraciano -- Part II. Strategies of the elite -- Accessories to inheritance: Nahua pictorial documents and testaments in early colonial central Mexico / Richard Conway -- The spoils of the Pech conquistadors / Mark Christensen -- "One or two of my living words": seventeenth- and eighteenth-century K'iche' testaments from Guatemala / Owen H. Jones -- Part III. The individual and collective nature of death -- Knowledge production, identity formation, and mortuary ritual in colonial native New England: a view from native-language documents / Kathleen J. Bragdon -- The testament of Gerónimo Flores, 1660: a Nahuatl-language writing from a Mixe community in colonial Mexico / Lisa Sousa -- Disposing of the body and aiding the soul: death, dying, and testaments in colonial Huexotzinco / Erika R. Hosselkus -- "Networks of trust": debtors and creditors in the wills of Indian nobles and commoners in the Lima Valley, 1596-1607 / Paul J. Charney -- Afterword: the irreplaceable window: reflections on the study of indigenous wills / Susan Kellogg and Matthew Restall.
Call number
  1. APXB 16-1516
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Native wills from the colonial Americas : dead giveaways in a new world / edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt.
Publisher
  1. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]
Copyright date
  1. ©2016
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological term
  1. To 1821
Added author
  1. Christensen, Mark Z., editor, author.
  2. Truitt, Jonathan G., 1977- editor, author.
LCCN
  1. 2015017706
ISBN
  1. 9781607814160 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  2. 1607814161 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  3. 9781607814177 (ebook)
Research call number
  1. APXB 16-1516
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