Death in the New World Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800

Name: Death in the New World Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800
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ISBN: 9780812221947

ISBN-10: 081222194X

ISBN-13: 9780812221947

Edition: 2010

Authors: Erik R. Seeman

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Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Caribbean sugar cane fields to the unfamiliar diseases that afflicted Europeans in the Chesapeake and West Indies. According to historian Erik R. Seeman, when Indians, Africans, and Europeans encountered one another, they could not ignore the similarities in their approaches to death. All of these groups believed in an afterlife to which the soul or spirit traveled after death. As a result all felt that corpses—the earthly vessels for the soul or spirit—should be treated with respect, and all mourned the dead with commemorative rituals. Seeman…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


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


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments