TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christensen,Mark Z.
AU  - Truitt,Jonathan
TI  - Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World
SN  - 9781607814177
AV  - F1219 
U1  - 972/.02 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Utah Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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