Mesoamerican memory : enduring systems of remembrance / edited by Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood

Published: Norman : The University of Oklahoma Press, [2012]
Copyright Date: ©2012
Physical Description: viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Additional Creators: Megged, Amos and Wood, Stephanie Gail, 1954-

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Contents

Itz'aat and Tlamatini: the "wise man" as keeper of Maya and Nahua collective memory / Daniel Graña-Behrens -- Rediscovering forgotten memories: recollection and emotion in Nahua conquest pictorials / Florine Asselbergs -- Remembering the ancestors: native pictorial genealogies of central Mexico and their pre-Hispanic roots / Justyna Olko -- Recalling political history in a Mixtec community: Santa María Cuquila, Oaxaca / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano -- The transformation of historical memory as revealed in two Zapotec primordial titles / María de los Angeles Romero Frizzi -- Memories of a kingdom: the Tarascan and Nahua foundation of pre-Hispanic Tzintzuntzan, west Mexico / Hans Roskamp -- Collective memory in Oaxaca: reshaping indigenous history / Bas van Doesburg -- Exploring three sixteenth-century "Totonac" pictorial manuscripts / Jerome Offner -- Things that unite and things that divide: the commemorational significance of together and apart in Nahua thought / Amos Megged -- The 1539 trial of Don Carlos Ometochtli and the scramble for Mount Tlaloc / León García Garagarza -- Transference of primordial threshold crossings onto the geomorphology of Mesoamerican foundational landscapes / Ángel Julián García Zambrano -- Memory, remembering, and the construction of truth among Maya groups in highland Guatemala / Judith M. Maxwell -- Cave, mountain, and ancestors: weaving history and cartography for the preservation of native Dominions in the early colonial Mixteca of Oaxaca / Carlos Rincón Mautner.

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ISBN

9780806142357 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0806142359 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references) (pages 277-307) and index.

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