Native Wills from the Colonial Americas : Dead Giveaways in a New World.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Women of Native America -- 1. Catalina de Agüero: A Mediating Life -- 2. Born Oceans Apart: The Joint Testament of a Chino Slave and His Mulata Wife -- 3. Revelations on Mexico Tenochtitlan: The 1648 Testament of Nicolasa Juana -- 4. Portrait of a Mixtec Woman Named 6-Crocodile -- Part 2: Strategies of the Elite -- 5. Accessories to Inheritance: Nahua Pictorial Documents and Testaments in Early Colonial Central Mexico -- 6. The Spoils of the Pech Conquistadors -- 7. "One or Two of My Living Words": Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century K'iche' Testaments from Guatemala -- Part 3: The Individual and Collective Nature of Death -- 8. Knowledge Production, Identity Formation, and Mortuary Ritual in Colonial Native New England -- 9. The Testament of Gerónimo Flores, 1660 -- 10. Disposing of the Body and Aiding the Soul -- 11. "Networks of Trust -- Afterword: The Irreplaceable Widow -- Glossary -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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