Before the Spanish Conquest and well into the eighteenth century,
Mesoamerican peoples believed that time and space were contained in
earthly and heavenly receptacles that were visualized
metaphorically. This circumscribed space contained the abodes of
the dead. There, deities and ancestral spirits could be revived and
the living could communicate with them. 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. He also explores how cherished and
revived practices evolved, how they were adapted to changing
circumstances, and how they helped various ethnic groups cope with
the tribulations of colonization and Christianization. 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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