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Book Title: Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America

Book Editor(s): Martina Will de Chaparro, Miruna Achim
Published by: University of Arizona Press. (2011)
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 Contents

From the Here to the Hereafter: An Introduction to

Death and Dying 1
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 28
Erika Hosselkus

2 Reading the (Dead) Body: Histories of Suicide in

New Spain 53
Zeb Tortorici

3 The Autopsy of Fray Garca Guerra: Corporal Meanings

in Seventeenth-Century Mexico 78
Miruna Achim

4 The Death of the Monarch as Colonial Sacrament 100

James Flaks

5 Exemplary Punishment in Colonial Lima: The 1639

Auto de Fe 121
Ana Schaposchnik

6 Angelic Death and Sacrifice in Early Modern

Hispanic America 142
Andrew Redden

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7 Medicine and the Dead: Conflicts over Burial Reform and

Piety in Lima, 18081850 170
Adam Warren

Notes 203
Select Bibliography 255
About the Contributors 263
Illustration Credits 267
Index 269

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