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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969643803321

Autore

Stack Trevor <1970->

Titolo

Knowing history in Mexico : an ethnography of citizenship / / Trevor Stack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613933744

9781283621298

1283621290

9780826352545

0826352545

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Disciplina

972

Soggetti

Historiography - Social aspects - Mexico - Tapalpa

Citizenship - Social aspects - Mexico - Tapalpa

Anthropology and history - Mexico - Tapalpa

Tapalpa (Mexico) Historiography

Mexico Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Maps, Illustrations, and Figures; Introduction; PART ONE: THE TRUTH OF HISTORY: An Anthropological Approach to History as Public Knowledge; 1: What Is Historia?: From Oral History and Memory Studies to the Anthropology of History; 2: The Past of History: Valuing a Public Kind of Truth; PART TWO: KNOWING HISTORY, BEING CITIZENS OF TOWNS; 3: Knowing History, Having Cultura, Being Citizens; 4: Skewing of History: Who Could Know History?; 5: Juggling Rooting and Cultura: Cosmopolitan Citizens

PART THREE: OTHER HISTORIES: National History and the History of Virgins6: Towns and Nations: Different Histories, Different Citizenships; 7: Histories of the Virgin: The Higher Ground of Secular History; PART FOUR: HISTORIES OF HISTORY: Tracing History and Histories Back in Time; 8: Shifts in History: How a History Changes over Time; 9: A Successful History: What Did Not Change; 10: The Success of History:



How a Genre Prospers; Epilogue: Citizenship Beyond the State?; References; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on the history and citizenship of towns and cities. Basing his inquiry on fieldwork in west Mexican towns near Guadalajara, Stack begins by observing that people talked (and wrote) of their towns' history and not just of Mexico's.