Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
When the Spanish colonized the Americas, they brought many cultural beliefs and practices with them, not the least of which involved death and dying. The essays in this volume explore the resulting intersections of cultures through recent scholarship related to death and dying in colonial Spanish Am...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tucson
University of Arizona Press
2011
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 0816529752, 9780816529759 |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter Table of Contents From the Here to the Hereafter: 1: Noble Nahuas, Faith, and Death: 2: Reading the (Dead) Body: 3: The Autopsy of Fray García Guerra: 4: The Death of the Monarch as Colonial Sacrament 5: Exemplary Punishment in Colonial Lima: 6: Angelic Death and Sacrifice in Early Modern Hispanic America 7: Medicine and the Dead: Notes Select Bibliography About the Contributors Illustration Credits Index
- Index Back Cover Illustration Credits Select Bibliography About the Contributors Notes 7. Medicine and the Dead: Conflicts over Burial Reform and Piety in Lima, 1808–1850 5. Exemplary Punishment in Colonial Lima: The 1639 Auto de Fe 6. Angelic Death and Sacrifice in Early Modern Hispanic America 4. The Death of the Monarch as Colonial Sacrament 2. Reading the (Dead) Body: Histories of Suicide in New Spain 3. The Autopsy of Fray García Guerra: Corporal Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Mexico 1. Noble Nahuas, Faith, and Death: How the Indigenous Elite of the Colonial Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley Prepared to Perish From the Here to the Hereafter: An Introduction to Death and Dying Contents Title Page, Copyright Cover
- Intro -- Contents -- From the Here to the Hereafter: An Introduction to Death and Dying - Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim -- 1. Noble Nahuas, Faith, and Death: How the Indigenous Elite of the Colonial Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley Prepared to Perish - Erika Hosselkus -- 2. Reading the (Dead) Body: Histories of Suicide in New Spain - Zeb Tortorici -- 3. The Autopsy of Fray García Guerra: Corporal Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Mexico - Miruna Achim -- 4. The Death of the Monarch as Colonial Sacrament - James Flaks -- 5. Exemplary Punishment in Colonial Lima: The 1639 Auto de Fe - Ana E. Schaposchnik -- 6. Angelic Death and Sacrifice in Early Modern Hispanic America - Andrew Redden -- 7. Medicine and the Dead: Conflicts over Burial Reform and Piety in Lima, 1808-1850 - Adam Warren -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index