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portada Descargar ficha PDF Título: Knowing History In Mexico An Ethnography Of Citizenship
Autor: Stack, Trevor Precio: $720.00
Editorial: University Of New Mexico Press Año: 2012
Tema: Historia, Antropologia Edición: 1ª
Sinopsis ISBN: 9780826352521
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.

Key to Stack's study is the insight that knowing history can give someone public status or authority. It can make someone stand out as a good or eminent citizen. What is it about history that makes this so? What is involved in knowing history and who is good at it? And what do they gain from being eminent citizens, whether of towns or nations?

As well as academic historians, Stack interviewed people from all walks of life_bricklayers, priests, teachers, politicians, peasant farmers, lawyers, and migrants. Resisting the idea that history is intrinsically interesting or valuable_that one simply must know the past in order to understand the present_he explores the very idea of "the past" and asks why it is valued by so many people.
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