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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 America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The authors address such important questions What were the relationships between the worlds of the living and the dead? How were these relationships sustained not just through religious dogma and rituals but also through everyday practices? How was unnatural death defined within different population strata? How did demographic and cultural changes affect mourning? The variety of sources uncovered in the authors original archival research suggests the wide diversity of topics and approaches they Nahua annals, Spanish chronicles, Inquisition case records, documents on land disputes, sermons, images, and death registers. Geographically, the range of research focuses on the viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, and New Granada. The resulting recordsboth documentary and archaeologicaloffer us a variety of vantage points from which to view each

Author

Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim

Publisher

Tucson: University of Arizona Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816529759

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, History