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Native wills from the colonial Americas : dead giveaways in a new world / edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of Mexico--History.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Central America--History.
- Indians of Central America.
- Wills--Mexico.
- Wills.
- Wills--Central America.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Mexico.
- Central America--History--To 1821.
- Central America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, [Utah] : The University of Utah Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Native Wills from the Colonial Americas showcases new testamentary sources from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.It provides readers with translations and analyses of wills written in Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, K'iche' Maya, Mixtec, and Wampanoag.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-417-X
- OCLC:
- 952158255
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