Format:
xv, 168 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780826352521
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9780826352545
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
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
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Description based upon print version of record
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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
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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
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Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826352521
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Knowing History in Mexico : An Ethnography of Citizenship
Language:
English
Keywords:
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