The materiality of remembering : an ethnographic study of the living spaces in a Nahua municipality in Veracruz, Mexico / Julieta Flores-Muñoz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flores-Muñoz, Julieta, author.

Series:

BAR international series ; 3002.

BAR international series ; 3002

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nahuas--Social life and customs.

Nahuas.

Nahuas--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State)--History.

Archaeology and history--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State).

Archaeology and history.

Oral tradition--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State).

Oral tradition.

Oral history--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State).

Oral history.

Collective memory--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State).

Collective memory.

Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 159 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

Although oral narrations are the way in which history has survived in Mexican indigenous contexts, they have been long disregarded as a valid source of information for archaeological research. The Materiality of Remembering argues that orality as a tool for research does not only provide clues for exploring indigenous uses of space, but that these narrations become central when investigating the way materiality changes through the act of remembrance. It is then through oral histories that materiality becomes fluid-moves and changes-through the constant process of remembrance. Then, by exploring orality in Mixtla de Altamirano in the Zongolica Mountain Range, Flores-Muoz provides a corpus of data that helps us explore the interwoven relationship established between people (in this case the Nahuas in Mixtla de Altamirano) and their material world in the process of accounting history.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 5, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407356242

1407356240

OCLC:

1291224749