![]() Ethelia Ruiz Medrano focuses on a series of individual cases, falling within successive historical epochs, that illustrate how the practice of drawing up and preserving historical documents-in particular, maps, oral accounts, and painted manuscripts-has been a determining factor in the history of Mexico's Indian communities for a variety of purposes, including the significant issue of land and its rightful ownership. Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories, recovering and rewriting versions of their past in light of their lived present. Sullivan, independent scholar" Choice To be publish in Spanish by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2015, Edición aprobada par su publicación en 2015 por Fondo de Cultura Económica "A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past. 2010- 2011 University Press of Colorado Top Ten Best Sellers. ![]()
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