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

Informationen zum Autor Mark Christensen received his PhD from Penn State and is an assistant professor of history at Assumption College. He is the author of Nahua and Maya Catholicisms and Translated Christianities . Jonathan Truitt received his PhD from Tulane University and is currently an associate professor of colonial Latin American and world history at Central Michigan University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Z. Christensen, Mark Z./ Truitt Christensen, Jonathan Truitt
• Assisted by: Mark Christensen (Editor), Mark Z Christensen (Editor), Mark Z. Christensen (Editor), Jonathan Truitt (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781607814160
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-416-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous