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A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to 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'Haraa Rockefeller Foundation grantee and the award-winning author of A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexicorejects this approach and its assumptions about time experience. Ranging widely across economic, political, and cultural practices, O'Hara reveals 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.

The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9780300233933, 978-0300233933
      ISBN10: 0300233930

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      Book Synopsis
      A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to 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'Haraa Rockefeller Foundation grantee and the award-winning author of A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexicorejects this approach and its assumptions about time experience. Ranging widely across economic, political, and cultural practices, O'Hara reveals 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.

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