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Informationen zum Autor Amos Megged is Associate Professor in the Department of General History at the University of Haifa. An ethnohistorian of colonial Mexico, he is the author of Exporting the Catholic Reformation: Local Religion in Early Colonial Mexico and editor, with Stephanie Wood, of Comparative Studies in Mesoamerican Systems of Remembrance. Klappentext In Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica, Amos Megged uncovers the missing links in Mesoamerican peoples' quest for their collective past. Zusammenfassung Megged analyses ancient repositories of knowledge and social and religious practices! uncovering the unique procedures by which social memory operated and was communicated in Mesoamerica before the Spanish conquest. Megged suggests that we rethink indigenous representations of the past! considering the transformations in Mexican society during the colonial era. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
