Native Wills from the Colonial Americas

Mark Christensen received his PhD from Penn State and is an assistant professor of history at Assumption College, USA. He is the author of Nahua and Maya Catholicisms and Translated Christianities. Jonathan Truitt received his PhD from Tulane University, USA and is currently an associate professor of colonial Latin American and world history at Central Michigan University, USA.

"This collection offers a solid body of new scholarship on indigenous wills in the colonial Americas, as well as critical teaching tools for instructors in Latin American history and historical anthropology. For introductory courses, it provides access to transcribed primary source materials that offer key insights into indigenous social experiences during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. For advanced courses, the articles exemplify the diversity of interpretive approaches that scholars are currently employing to make sense of a crucial category of materials." -Nathaniel P. VanValkenburgh, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Vermont "The volume is made especially rich by the depth of knowledge that each contributor brings to his or her document. ... It is particularly commendable for its attempt to widen the scope of the comparative study of the colonial Americas by including samples from such diverse linguistic and social contexts."-Hispanic American Historical Review