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Title Death and dying in colonial Spanish America / edited by Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents Noble Nahuas, faith, and death : how the Indigenous elite of the colonial Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley prepared to perish / Erika Hosselkus -- Reading the (dead) body : histories of suicide in New Spain / Zeb Tortorici -- The autopsy of Fray García Guerra : corporal meanings in seventeenth-century Mexico / Miruna Achim -- The death of the monarch as colonial sacrament / James Flaks -- Exemplary punishment in colonial Lima : the 1639 Auto de Fe / Ana Schaposchnik -- Angelic death and sacrifice in early modern Hispanic America / Andrew Redden -- Medicine and the dead : conflicts over burial reform and piety in Lima, 1808-1850 / Adam Warren
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Burial -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History
Burial -- Social aspects -- New Spain -- History
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Latin America -- History
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- New Spain -- History
HISTORY -- General.
Spanish colonies
Colonies -- Administration
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Latin America -- Social life and customs
Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084578
New Spain -- Social life and customs
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
Subject America
Latin America
Mexico
New Spain
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Achim, Miruna, editor.
Will de Chaparro, Martina, 1967- editor.
LC no. 2011023895
ISBN 9780816521081
0816521085