Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America.
Will de Chaparro, Martina.
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (286 pages)
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.
9780816521081
Burial-Social aspects-Latin America-History.
Burial-Social aspects-New Spain-History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies-Latin America-History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies-New Spain-History.
Latin America-Social life and customs.
Mexico-History-Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
New Spain-Social life and customs.
Spain-Colonies-America-Administration.
Electronic books.
GT3213
393.098
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (286 pages)
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.
9780816521081
Burial-Social aspects-Latin America-History.
Burial-Social aspects-New Spain-History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies-Latin America-History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies-New Spain-History.
Latin America-Social life and customs.
Mexico-History-Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
New Spain-Social life and customs.
Spain-Colonies-America-Administration.
Electronic books.
GT3213
393.098