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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.