Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
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- Author: Amos Megged, University of Haifa, Israel
- Date Published: June 2014
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- isbn: 9781107448766
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Before the Spanish Conquest and well into the eighteenth century, Mesoamerican peoples believed that “time” and “space” were contained in earthly and heavenly receptacles that were visualized metaphorically. This circumscribed space contained the abodes of the dead. There, deities and ancestral spirits could be revived and the living could communicate with them. In 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.
Read more- 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
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"His [Amos Megged] book adds vivid evidence to the consensus that 'deeply rooted core aspects and beliefs of pre-Columbian native cosmology remained alive and in praxis, despite the heavy price the society paid to Christianization and Hispanization'." -Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews"Megged's book...is a very fruitful and innovative approach to understand indigenous processes of remembrance, particular of the Nahuas in early colonial Central Mexico." -Paideuma
"This book from University of Haifa's professor Amos Megged centres in the study of Nahua peoples' forms of commemorating the past, between the Late Post-Classic period and the mid-eighteenth cenutry." -Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Canadian Journal of History
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- Date Published: June 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107448766
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- contains: 43 b/w illus. 2 maps
- availability: Available
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.
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