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Native wills from the colonial Americas : dead giveaways in a new world
- Title
- Native wills from the colonial Americas : dead giveaways in a new world / edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt.
- Publication
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | APXB 16-1516 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- APXB 16-1516
- ISBN
- 9781607814160
- 1607814161
- 9781607814177 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015017706
- OCLC
- 900243164
- Title
- Native wills from the colonial Americas : dead giveaways in a new world / edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt.
- Publisher
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1821
- Added Author
- Christensen, Mark Z., editor, author.Truitt, Jonathan G., 1977- editor, author.
- Research Call Number
- APXB 16-1516