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Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816521081
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish AmericaDDC classification:
  • 393.098
LOC classification:
  • GT3213
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- From the Here to the Hereafter: An Introduction to Death and Dying - Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim -- 1. Noble Nahuas, Faith, and Death: How the Indigenous Elite of the Colonial Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley Prepared to Perish - Erika Hosselkus -- 2. Reading the (Dead) Body: Histories of Suicide in New Spain - Zeb Tortorici -- 3. The Autopsy of Fray García Guerra: Corporal Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Mexico - Miruna Achim -- 4. The Death of the Monarch as Colonial Sacrament - James Flaks -- 5. Exemplary Punishment in Colonial Lima: The 1639 Auto de Fe - Ana E. Schaposchnik -- 6. Angelic Death and Sacrifice in Early Modern Hispanic America - Andrew Redden -- 7. Medicine and the Dead: Conflicts over Burial Reform and Piety in Lima, 1808-1850 - Adam Warren -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- From the Here to the Hereafter: An Introduction to Death and Dying - Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim -- 1. Noble Nahuas, Faith, and Death: How the Indigenous Elite of the Colonial Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley Prepared to Perish - Erika Hosselkus -- 2. Reading the (Dead) Body: Histories of Suicide in New Spain - Zeb Tortorici -- 3. The Autopsy of Fray García Guerra: Corporal Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Mexico - Miruna Achim -- 4. The Death of the Monarch as Colonial Sacrament - James Flaks -- 5. Exemplary Punishment in Colonial Lima: The 1639 Auto de Fe - Ana E. Schaposchnik -- 6. Angelic Death and Sacrifice in Early Modern Hispanic America - Andrew Redden -- 7. Medicine and the Dead: Conflicts over Burial Reform and Piety in Lima, 1808-1850 - Adam Warren -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

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