Native Wills from the Colonial Americas :
Native Wills from the Colonial Americas : Dead Giveaways in a New World /
edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt.
- 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Jonathan Truitt and Mark Christensen -- Part I. Women of native America -- Catalina de Ag�uero: 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 Ger�onimo 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.
9781607814177 160781417X
To 1821
Indians of Mexico--History.
Indians of Central America--History.
Wills--Mexico.
Wills--Central America.
HISTORY--Latin America--Mexico.
Indians of Central America.
Indians of Mexico.
Wills.
Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Central America--History--To 1821.
Central America.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
History.
F1219
972/.02
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Jonathan Truitt and Mark Christensen -- Part I. Women of native America -- Catalina de Ag�uero: 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 Ger�onimo 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.
9781607814177 160781417X
To 1821
Indians of Mexico--History.
Indians of Central America--History.
Wills--Mexico.
Wills--Central America.
HISTORY--Latin America--Mexico.
Indians of Central America.
Indians of Mexico.
Wills.
Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Central America--History--To 1821.
Central America.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
History.
F1219
972/.02