Native Wills from the Colonial Americas

Book Review| May 01 2018 Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World. Edited by Christensen, Mark and Truitt, Jonathan. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Amber Brian Amber Brian University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 306–307. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-4377031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Amber Brian; Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 May 2018; 98 (2): 306–307. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-4377031 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt's sequel to Susan Kellogg and Matthew Restall's influential 1998 edited volume Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes moves the title of the earlier volume to a subtitle, thus emphasizing the expanded scope of their study of native wills and testaments. As the editors remind us in their introduction, native wills continue to be relevant in historical studies of the colonial-era Americas by illuminating myriad facets of colonial culture including gender, identity, and religion. Christensen and Truitt sought to reach beyond Mesoamerica and the Andes in Native Wills from the Colonial Americas but found that there are no known examples of native wills from the French- and Portuguese-speaking colonies and many fewer examples from the English colonies in North America. Nonetheless, their volume offers a rich and broad selection of testaments from various ethnic... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 You do not currently have access to this content

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