- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to instead examine colonial-era conceptions of the future Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O'Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of "futuremaking." While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical memory, O'Hara--a Rockefeller Foundation grantee and the award-winning author of A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico--rejects this approach and its assumptions about time experience. Ranging widely across economic, political, and cultural practices, O'Hara demonstrates how colonial subjects used the resources of tradition and Catholicism to craft new futures. An intriguing, innovative work, this volume will be widely read by scholars of Latin American history, religious studies, and historical methodology.
- Uniform Title
- History of the Future in Colonial Mexico (Online)
- Alternative Title
- History of the Future in Colonial Mexico (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-242) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Confessions -- Stars -- Money -- Prayers -- Promises.
- LCCN
- 2018935323
- OCLC
- ssj0002184074
- Author
O'Hara, Matthew D. (Matthew David), 1970-
- Title
The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico [electronic resource] / Matthew D. O'Hara.
- Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Men
Nationality/regional group: Californians
Occupational/field of activity group: History teachers
Occupational/field of activity group: University and college faculty members
Occupational/field of activity group: University and college administrators
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-242) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1540-1810