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Native Wills from the Colonial Americas - Dead Giveaways in a New World (Hardcover)
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Native Wills from the Colonial Americas - Dead Giveaways in a New World (Hardcover)
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Native Wills from the Colonial Americas showcases new testamentary
sources from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It provides
readers with translations and analyses of wills written in Spanish,
Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, K'iche' Maya, Mixtec, and Wampanoag. Divided
into three thematic sections, the book provides insights and
details that further our understanding of indigenous life in the
Americas under colonial rule. Part One employs testaments to
highlight the women of Native America and the ways their lives
frequently challenged prescribed gender roles and statuses. Part
Two uses testaments to illustrate the strategies of the elite in
both negotiating and maintaining their power in a colonial, Spanish
world. Part Three contributes to our understanding of the
individual and collective nature of death by extracting from wills
the importance of conversion, kinship, and societal ties in the
colonial Americas. Capturing individual voices during dramatic
periods of change, the documents presented here help us understand
how cultures both adapt and persist.
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