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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781607814177 160781417X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>To 1821 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indians of Mexico--History.<br/>Indians of Central America--History.<br/>Wills--Mexico.<br/>Wills--Central America.<br/>HISTORY--Latin America--Mexico.<br/>Indians of Central America.<br/>Indians of Mexico.<br/>Wills.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.<br/>Central America--History--To 1821.<br/>Central America.<br/>Mexico.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1219 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>972/.02