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Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica

By: Amos Megged

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Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica

By: Amos Megged

In Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica, Amos Megged uncovers the missing links in Mesoamerican peoples' quest for their collective past. Analyzing ancient repositories of knowledge, as well as social and religious practices, he uncovers the unique procedures and formulas by which social memory was communicated and how it operated in Mesoamerica prior to the Spanish conquest. Megged's volume also suggests how social and cultural historians, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists can rethink indigenous representations of the past while taking into account the deep transformations in Mexican society during the colonial era.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521112273

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Rituals and Sisterhoods

Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750

By: Amos Megged

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Rituals and Sisterhoods

Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750

By: Amos Megged

Rituals and Sisterhoods reveals the previously under-studied world of plebeian single women and single-female-headed households in colonial Mexican urban centers. Focusing on the lower echelons of society, Amos Megged considers why some commoner women remained single and established their own female-headed households, examining their unique discourses and self-representations from various angles. Megged analyzes these women’s life stories recorded during the Spanish Inquisition, as well as wills and bequests, petitions, parish records, and private letters that describe—in their own words—how they exercised agency in male-dominated and religious spaces. Translations of select documents and accompanying analysis illustrate the conditions in which women dissolved their marriages, remained in long-lasting extramarital cohabitations, and formed female-led households and “sisterhoods” of their own. Megged provides evidence that single women in colonial Mexico played a far more active and central role in economic systems, social organizations, cults, and political activism than has been previously thought, creating spaces for themselves in which they could initiate and maintain autonomy and values distinct from those of elite society. The institutionalization of female-headed households in mid-colonial Mexico had wide-ranging repercussions and effects on general societal values. Rituals and Sisterhoods details the particular relevance of these changes to the history of emotions, sexuality, gender concepts, perceptions of marriage, life choices, and views of honor and shame in colonial society. This book will be of significant interest to students and scholars of colonial Latin American history, the history of Early Modern Spain and Europe, and gender and women’s studies.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607329638

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Exporting the Catholic Reformation

Local Religion in Early-Colonial Mexico

By: Megged

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Exporting the Catholic Reformation

Local Religion in Early-Colonial Mexico

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Applying a great variety of both Spanish and indigenous sources, this book provides a new insight into the essential impact of the Catholic Reformation on ritual practices in the native Indian parishes of early-colonial southern Mexico.

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BRILL

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9004611797

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9789004611795

A Blood-dimmed Tide

Dispatches from the Middle East

By: Amos Elon

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A Blood-dimmed Tide

Dispatches from the Middle East

By: Amos Elon

Elon charts the trajectory of politics in the modern Middle East, and the progress of relations between Jews and Arabs--and among the Israelis themselves--over the course of nearly thirty years. Sensitive, informed, and beautifully written, this is a powerful account of the past, present, and future of one of the most fascinating and turbulent places in the world.

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Columbia University Press

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0231107420

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The Way It Was

Autobiography: Unique Israeli Leader and Visionary

By: Amos Horev

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The Way It Was

Autobiography: Unique Israeli Leader and Visionary

By: Amos Horev

An examination of Major General Amos Horev and his pivotal role in shaping Israel's military and technological advancements through personal experiences and historical insights. This important memoir, translated into English for the author’s 100th birthday, tells the life story of Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Horev, a visionary leader whose contributions helped shape Israel’s growth across many fields. Rooted in memories of growing up in Jerusalem in the 1920s and ‘30s, where he built foundational friendships with other future leaders, such as Yigael Yadin, Uzi Narkiss, and Yohay Ben-Nun, Horev tells the story of Israel through the personal lens of his own experiences. One of the first Palmach commanders and deputy to Yigal Allon and Moshe Dayan during Israel’s War of Independence, he went on to shape the evolution of the Israel Defense Forces’ weaponry and logistics, later serving as president of the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and chair of the board of Rafael, Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. In this autobiography, Retired Major General Amos Horev reveals the stories of the daily lives of the fighters and commanders in the Palmach—their failures, their successes, and most especially their motivation to fight to the end, even when the results were unknowable and the chances were slim. Through wars and missions, Amos remained a family man. He reveals another layer of his inner life when he speaks about Shoshana, his wife and the love of his life. Amos Horev’s life story, which he tells with candor and integrity, combines with the story of Israel, and the generation that broke the ground, for those who followed.

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Peter E. Randall Publisher

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1942155867

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In the Land of Israel

Essays

By: Amos Oz

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In the Land of Israel

Essays

By: Amos Oz

A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Judas. Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people—workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, desperate Arabs, visionaries—asking them questions about Israel’s past, present, and future. Observant or secular, rich or poor, native-born or new immigrant, they shared their points of view, memories, hopes, and fears, and Oz recorded them. What emerges is a distinctive portrait of a changing nation and a complex society, supplemented by Oz’s own observations and reflections, that reflects an insider’s view of a country still forming its own identity. In the Land of Israel is “an exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas” (The New York Times).

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HMH

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0547540779

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Mesoamerican Memory

Enduring Systems of Remembrance

By: Stephanie Wood,Amos Megged

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Mesoamerican Memory

Enduring Systems of Remembrance

By: Stephanie Wood,Amos Megged

Euro-Americans see the Spanish conquest as the main event in the five-century history of Mesoamerica, but the people who lived there before contact never gave up their own cultures. Both before and after conquest, indigenous scribes recorded their communities’ histories and belief systems, as well as the events of conquest and its effects and aftermath. Today, the descendants of those native historians in modern-day Mexico and Guatemala still remember their ancestors’ stories. In Mesoamerican Memory, volume editors Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood have gathered the latest scholarship from contributors around the world to compare these various memories and explore how they were preserved and altered over time. Rather than dividing Mesoamerica’s past into pre-contact, colonial, and modern periods, the essays in this volume emphasize continuity from the pre-conquest era to the present, underscoring the ongoing importance of indigenous texts in creating and preserving community identity, history, and memory. In addition to Nahua and Maya recollections, contributors examine the indigenous traditions of Mixtec, Zapotec, Tarascan, and Totonac peoples. Close analysis of pictorial and alphabetic manuscripts, and of social and religious rituals, yields insight into community history and memory, political relations, genealogy, ethnic identity, and portrayals of the Spanish invaders. Drawing on archaeology, art history, ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics, the essays consider the function of manuscripts and ritual in local, regional, and, now, national settings. Several scholars highlight direct connections between the collective memory of indigenous communities and the struggles of contemporary groups. Such modern documents as land titles, for example, gain legitimacy by referring to ancestral memory. Crossing disciplinary, methodological, and temporal boundaries, Mesoamerican Memory advances our understanding of collective memory in Mexico and Guatemala. Through diverse sources—pictorial and alphabetic, archaeological, archival, and ethnographic—readers gain a glimpse into indigenous remembrances that, without the research exhibited here, might have remained unknown to the outside world.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080618809X

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9780806188096

Rituals and Sisterhoods

Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750

By: Amos Megged

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Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750

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Exporting the Catholic Reformation

Local Religion in Early-Colonial Mexico

By: Amos Megged

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Local Religion in Early-Colonial Mexico

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Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica

By: Amos Megged

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THROUGH THE EYES OF AMOS ALLEN

By: Amos Allen

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THROUGH THE EYES OF AMOS ALLEN

By: Amos Allen

Who to me, I am ruined for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and eyes have seen the king. The Lord Almighty. The one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it, he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away, and you sin atoned for. Then I heard the voice of the lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am. Send me." ""Isaiah 6:5""8 (NIV)

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Book's by Amos Megged

Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica

Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica

Rituals and Sisterhoods

Rituals and Sisterhoods

Exporting the Catholic Reformation

Exporting the Catholic Reformation

A Blood-dimmed Tide

A Blood-dimmed Tide

The Way It Was

The Way It Was

In the Land of Israel

In the Land of Israel

Mesoamerican Memory

Mesoamerican Memory

Rituals and Sisterhoods

Rituals and Sisterhoods

Exporting the Catholic Reformation

Exporting the Catholic Reformation

Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica

Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica

THROUGH THE EYES OF AMOS ALLEN

THROUGH THE EYES OF AMOS ALLEN

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