| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jonathan Truitt and Mark Christensen -- Part I. Women of native America -- Catalina de Agüero: 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 Gerónimo 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of Mexico -- History.
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Indians of Mexico. |
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History. |
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Indians of Central America -- History.
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Indians of Central America. |
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Wills -- Mexico.
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Wills. |
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Mexico. |
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Wills -- Central America.
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Central America. |
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Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
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Central America -- History -- To 1821.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1821 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Christensen, Mark Z., editor, author.
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Truitt, Jonathan G., 1977- editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781607814160 1607814161 (DLC) 2015017706 (OCoLC)900243164 |
| ISBN |
9781607814177 (electronic book) |
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160781417X (electronic book) |
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9781607814160 |
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1607814161 |
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