Death in the New World : cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800 /
Through a series of engrossing narratives, Death in the New World uses the customs surrounding death among Indians, Africans, and Europeans as a lens through which to examine the cross-cultural interactions in North America and the Caribbean in the three centuries following Columbus.
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©2010.
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| 丛编: | Early American studies.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fh9cf |
书本目录:
- Introduction: ways of dying, ways of living
- Old worlds of death
- First encounters
- Burial and disinterment in the Chesapeake
- Holy bones and beautiful deaths in New France
- Grave missions: Christianizing death in New England
- Across the waters: African American deathways
- Crossing boundaries, keeping faith: Jewish deathways
- Burial and condolence in the Seven Years' War
- Conclusion: ways of living, ways of dying.