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- Author: Christina Bueno
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- ISBN-10: 0826357326
- ISBN-13: 9780826357328
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 2 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Winner of the Michael C. Meyer Award from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
2016-2017 Alfred B. Thomas Award Honorable Mention from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
2017 Annual Book Award Honorable Mention from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio DÃaz. Under DÃaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico's image as a backward, peripheral nation. The government claimed symbolic links with the great civilizations of pre-Hispanic times as it hauled statues to the National Museum and reconstructed Teotihuacán. Christina Bueno explores the different facets of the Porfirian archaeological project and underscores the contradictory place of indigenous identity in modern Mexico. While the making of Mexico's official past was thought to bind the nation together, it was an exclusionary process, one that celebrated the civilizations of bygone times while disparaging contemporary Indians.
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- Author: Christina Bueno
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- ISBN-10: 0826357326
- ISBN-13: 9780826357328
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 2 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Winner of the Michael C. Meyer Award from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
2016-2017 Alfred B. Thomas Award Honorable Mention from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
2017 Annual Book Award Honorable Mention from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio DÃaz. Under DÃaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico's image as a backward, peripheral nation. The government claimed symbolic links with the great civilizations of pre-Hispanic times as it hauled statues to the National Museum and reconstructed Teotihuacán. Christina Bueno explores the different facets of the Porfirian archaeological project and underscores the contradictory place of indigenous identity in modern Mexico. While the making of Mexico's official past was thought to bind the nation together, it was an exclusionary process, one that celebrated the civilizations of bygone times while disparaging contemporary Indians.
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