Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
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GBPIn Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica, Amos Megged uncovers the missing links in Mesoamerican peoples' quest for their collective past. Analyzing ancient repositories of knowledge, as well as social and religious practices, he uncovers the unique procedures and formulas by which social memory was communicated and how it operated in Mesoamerica prior to the Spanish conquest. He also explores how cherished and revived practices evolved, how they were adapted to changing circumstances, and how they helped various ethnic groups cope with the tribulations of colonization and Christianization. Megged's volume also suggests how social and cultural historians, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists can rethink indigenous representations of the past while taking into account the deep transformations in Mexican society during the colonial era.
- This is a novel and a creative attempt to decipher the unique features by which the Mesoamerican peoples practised the social patterns of remembrance
- This study has much relevance to how social and cultural historians, art-historians, and anthropologists may rethink indigenous representations of their past while facing up to the deep transformations that their society underwent during colonial times
- This book is deeply engaged in the current debates in the field of Mesoamerican studies over the continuity and change in indigenous patterns of recording and remembrance
Reviews & endorsements
'[Megged's] sensitive, attentive and informed readings make a major contribution to the unfolding picture of continuity and gradual change in indigenous traditions … a book that reveals much about the colonial experience of the Nahua, and suggests a great deal more.' The Times Literary Supplement
Product details
September 2014Paperback
9781107448766
360 pages
254 × 178 × 21 mm
0.65kg
43 b/w illus. 2 maps
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Primers of Mesoamerican social memory
- 2. The sources and their applications
- 3. Binding and transcendence
- 4. In search of harmoniousness
- 5. Dispersal and fragmentation
- 6. Rites and times of foundations
- 7. A new cult, a new temple
- Epilogue: a Popolocan memory tale.
