TY - BOOK AU - Christensen,Mark Z. AU - Truitt,Jonathan G. TI - Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World SN - 9781607814177 AV - F1219 U1 - 972/.02 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Salt Lake City PB - The University of Utah Press KW - Indians of Mexico KW - History KW - Indians of Central America KW - Wills KW - Mexico KW - Central America KW - HISTORY KW - Latin America KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Spanish colony, 1540-1810 KW - To 1821 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1257337 ER -