Amos Megged
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 179167 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amos Megged |
| NOMBRES | Amos |
| APELLIDO | Megged |
| FIRMA | MEGGED A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3093-1765 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Enclosures With Inclusion” Vis-À-Vis “Boundaries” in Ancient Mexico
Recent in-depth research on the Nahua Corpus Xolotl, as well as on a large variety of compatible sources, has led to new insights on what were “boundaries” in preconquest Nahua thought. The present article proposes that our modern Western concept of borders and political boundaries was foreign to ancient Mexican societies and to Aztec-era polities in general. Consequently, the article aims to add a novel angle to our understanding of the notions …
Learning from poor single women’s autonomous households in Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
What is the ability of poor single women today to maintain an economically autonomous household? In the context of gender power relations, the literature often employs the concept of de-familialisation, which is the degree to which a woman is able to maintain an autonomous household without having to depend on a male breadwinner. Scholars argue that current welfare reforms deliberately aim at re-establishing the family as the primary source of ec…
The Sixteenth-Century Zinacantepec Census
While earlier census studies yielded population data mainly for the Tepetlaoztoc and Morelos regions of central Mexico during the 1530s and 1540s, this ethnohistoric study, based on a newly discovered manuscript, sheds light on household types and population density in the town of Zinacantepec by 1574. By comparing population figures, household types, and migration patterns, this article reconsiders how Aztec invasion, and thereafter the Spanish …
El "relato de memoria" de los axoxpanecas (Posclásico tardío a 1610DC)
En contraste con estudios anteriores del título Ajusco, el objetivo del artículo es la comprensión de este título único y sus vínculos íntimos con el patrimonio cultural de los nahuas. Concretamente, me centraré en el significado esencial de la conceptualización nahua del tiempo y el espacio. La copia de la Biblioteca Lafragua en Puebla, que es una transcripción completa del original, probablemente en 1768, fue desenterrada recientemente por Lidi…
Salvaging Recurring Themes of Historical Memory in the Cohuixca Province of Tepecoacuilco (Cohuixcatlacapan), Guerrero, Mexico, 1460 to 1580
This article aims to fill in some of the lacunae that still exist regarding the Cohuixca ethnicity of the northeastern part of the State of Guerrero. To do so, it introduces a qualitative methodological approach into ethnohistory, which discerns pervasive patterns of special understanding that guided indigenous testimony in the colonial Spanish courtroom. It emphasizes that early colonial Cohuixca testimonies were deeply influenced by what are ca…
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present. This publication is important; first, because of the historical and contemporary centrality of religion in the life of Latin America; second, for the rapid process of religious change which the region is undergoing; and third, for the region's religious distinctiveness in global comparative terms, which contribu…
Contrasting Resistance and Alliances in the Ethnic State of Napiniaca, Chiapas (Mexico) (1521-1590)
The present article aims to re-evaluate the gamut of ostensible alliances forged between colonial subordinates and those who subordinated them in the ethnic state of Napiniaca, Mexico, as well as identify the social spaces and contexts in which such alliances were formed and ultimately fell apart. It will do so by attempting to “unwrap” indigenous strategies and forms of resistance based on the admittedly limited texts we currently possess, in li…
Between History, Memory, and Law
A deep reading of testimony delivered at the Spanish colonial court of the Audiencia uncovers distinctive speech formulas, nonverbal cues, and conceptual constructs that throw light on the intentions and goals, as well as the cultural predispositions, of communities and individuals. Historians can employ a similar methodology to derive patterns of "cognitive schemata" from testimony in other legal settings of the early modern era
Nahua Patterns of Colonization in Maya Towns of Guatemala, 1524 to 1582
This article seeks to further contribute to our understanding of the outcomes of earlier Nahua-Spanish alliances after Guatemala was pacified. The richly documented struggles of the Maya-Pok'omam communities around Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala between 1524 and 1580 reveal - in microcosm - the larger processes some of them stretching back into the pre-contact period that Mesoamerican scholars call ‘conquest-after-conquest.’ As this essay highlights…
Laura E. MATTHEW. Memories of Conquest
Laura E. Matthew's fine book unfolds a highly sophisticated scholarly inquiry into a theme currently on the cutting-edge of Mesoamerican historiography. The book contains six progressive chapters and employs a myriad of archival sources, ranging from parish and confraternity records to civil and criminal minutes, censuses and tribute lists, and major Spanish colonial Residencia proceedings. Indeed, this present study is an immense elaboration of …
Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
Introduction 1. Primers of Mesoamerican social memory 2. The sources and their applications 3. Binding and transcendence 4. In search of harmoniousness 5. Dispersal and fragmentation 6. Rites and times of foundations 7. A new cult, a new temple Epilogue: a Popolocan memory tale
Nahua Repositories of Social Memory
Through the analysis of two exemplary sources pertaining to the genre of the Nahua primordial titles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the aim of this essay is to contribute further to our understanding of how this distinct Nahua colonial genre can be used for the study of Nahua social memory during Spanish colonial times. More precisely, what this present essay endeavors to identify the subtextual and supra-textual layers in these two…
"Communities of Memory" In the Valley of Toluca
A close study of Metepec's tale of remembrance brings to light distinct and unique representations of significant episodes and social and political circumstances in its pre-Cortesian past, as well as in the early colonial period. These divergent representations were created by closed circles of factions, neighbors, elders, and kin in this "community of memory" who wished to claim special rights and prerogatives over their shared past. As such, th…
"Revalorando" las Luces en el mundo hispano
Analyse du fonds de librairie d'Agustin Dhervé, premier libraire ayant pignon sur rue à Mexico, au milieu du XVIIIe siècle
The Social Significance of Benevolent and Malevolent Gifts Among Single Caste Women in Mid-Seventeenth-Century New Spain
This article reconsiders the model of the “alternative household” of single, unattached caste women in mid-seventeenth-century New Spain. It also explores the particular “strategies of survival” adopted by single women to challenge, to undermine, and to overcome local conditions, barriers, and norms of suppression, as well as to regenerate and reformulate change, and to effect revenge, from their alternative, familial frameworks. Benevolent and m…
Exporting the Catholic Reformation
This study introduces a novel, cultural interpretation to the overall impact of the Catholic Reformation in Europe on the changing facets of the religious life in the indigenous communities of southern Mexico, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It examines the modes by which Spanish mendicant priests translated norms, standards and mores enforced by the Tridentine dogma into the far-removed contexts of the New World. Using a rich var…
Right from the Heart
Magic, popular medicine and gender in seventeenth‐century Mexico
(1994). Magic, popular medicine and gender in seventeenth‐century Mexico: The case of Isabel de Montoya. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 189-207
The rise of Creole identity in early colonial Guatemala
During the past decade, the field of the social history of race relations in colonial Latin America has been dominated by studies based on statistical surveys, compiled from colonial censuses and parish records according to a socio-occupational grid and marriage patterns, placing the different castes within social structures. Looking at these censuses and their statistical analysis, one striking feature constantly comes to light: they reveal to u…
Accommodation and Resistance of Elites in Transition
H E need for reciprocity after the first violent confrontation in early colonial Latin America was quickly acknowledged by Indians and Spaniards alike. Conqueror and missionary turned to individuals among the native elites to seek support for their goals in exchange for patronage and alliance that would ensure the elites' survival under the ruthless colonial regime. For the native elites, this demanded a subtle application of diverse strategies a…
El "relato de memoria" de los axoxpanecas (Posclásico tardío a 1610DC)
En contraste con estudios anteriores del título Ajusco, el objetivo del artículo es la comprensión de este título único y sus vínculos íntimos con el patrimonio cultural de los nahuas. Concretamente, me centraré en el significado esencial de la conceptualización nahua del tiempo y el espacio. La copia de la Biblioteca Lafragua en Puebla, que es una transcripción completa del original, probablemente en 1768, fue desenterrada recientemente por Lidi…
Between History, Memory, and Law
A deep reading of testimony delivered at the Spanish colonial court of the Audiencia uncovers distinctive speech formulas, nonverbal cues, and conceptual constructs that throw light on the intentions and goals, as well as the cultural predispositions, of communities and individuals. Historians can employ a similar methodology to derive patterns of "cognitive schemata" from testimony in other legal settings of the early modern era
Nahua Repositories of Social Memory
Through the analysis of two exemplary sources pertaining to the genre of the Nahua primordial titles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the aim of this essay is to contribute further to our understanding of how this distinct Nahua colonial genre can be used for the study of Nahua social memory during Spanish colonial times. More precisely, what this present essay endeavors to identify the subtextual and supra-textual layers in these two…
Magic, popular medicine and gender in seventeenth‐century Mexico
(1994). Magic, popular medicine and gender in seventeenth‐century Mexico: The case of Isabel de Montoya. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 189-207
Accommodation and Resistance of Elites in Transition
H E need for reciprocity after the first violent confrontation in early colonial Latin America was quickly acknowledged by Indians and Spaniards alike. Conqueror and missionary turned to individuals among the native elites to seek support for their goals in exchange for patronage and alliance that would ensure the elites' survival under the ruthless colonial regime. For the native elites, this demanded a subtle application of diverse strategies a…
Enclosures With Inclusion” Vis-À-Vis “Boundaries” in Ancient Mexico
Recent in-depth research on the Nahua Corpus Xolotl, as well as on a large variety of compatible sources, has led to new insights on what were “boundaries” in preconquest Nahua thought. The present article proposes that our modern Western concept of borders and political boundaries was foreign to ancient Mexican societies and to Aztec-era polities in general. Consequently, the article aims to add a novel angle to our understanding of the notions …
Learning from poor single women’s autonomous households in Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
What is the ability of poor single women today to maintain an economically autonomous household? In the context of gender power relations, the literature often employs the concept of de-familialisation, which is the degree to which a woman is able to maintain an autonomous household without having to depend on a male breadwinner. Scholars argue that current welfare reforms deliberately aim at re-establishing the family as the primary source of ec…
The Sixteenth-Century Zinacantepec Census
While earlier census studies yielded population data mainly for the Tepetlaoztoc and Morelos regions of central Mexico during the 1530s and 1540s, this ethnohistoric study, based on a newly discovered manuscript, sheds light on household types and population density in the town of Zinacantepec by 1574. By comparing population figures, household types, and migration patterns, this article reconsiders how Aztec invasion, and thereafter the Spanish …
Nahua Patterns of Colonization in Maya Towns of Guatemala, 1524 to 1582
This article seeks to further contribute to our understanding of the outcomes of earlier Nahua-Spanish alliances after Guatemala was pacified. The richly documented struggles of the Maya-Pok'omam communities around Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala between 1524 and 1580 reveal - in microcosm - the larger processes some of them stretching back into the pre-contact period that Mesoamerican scholars call ‘conquest-after-conquest.’ As this essay highlights…
"Communities of Memory" In the Valley of Toluca
A close study of Metepec's tale of remembrance brings to light distinct and unique representations of significant episodes and social and political circumstances in its pre-Cortesian past, as well as in the early colonial period. These divergent representations were created by closed circles of factions, neighbors, elders, and kin in this "community of memory" who wished to claim special rights and prerogatives over their shared past. As such, th…
The Social Significance of Benevolent and Malevolent Gifts Among Single Caste Women in Mid-Seventeenth-Century New Spain
This article reconsiders the model of the “alternative household” of single, unattached caste women in mid-seventeenth-century New Spain. It also explores the particular “strategies of survival” adopted by single women to challenge, to undermine, and to overcome local conditions, barriers, and norms of suppression, as well as to regenerate and reformulate change, and to effect revenge, from their alternative, familial frameworks. Benevolent and m…
Right from the Heart
The rise of Creole identity in early colonial Guatemala
During the past decade, the field of the social history of race relations in colonial Latin America has been dominated by studies based on statistical surveys, compiled from colonial censuses and parish records according to a socio-occupational grid and marriage patterns, placing the different castes within social structures. Looking at these censuses and their statistical analysis, one striking feature constantly comes to light: they reveal to u…
Accommodation and Resistance of Elites in Transition
H E need for reciprocity after the first violent confrontation in early colonial Latin America was quickly acknowledged by Indians and Spaniards alike. Conqueror and missionary turned to individuals among the native elites to seek support for their goals in exchange for patronage and alliance that would ensure the elites' survival under the ruthless colonial regime. For the native elites, this demanded a subtle application of diverse strategies a…
The rise of Creole identity in early colonial Guatemala
During the past decade, the field of the social history of race relations in colonial Latin America has been dominated by studies based on statistical surveys, compiled from colonial censuses and parish records according to a socio-occupational grid and marriage patterns, placing the different castes within social structures. Looking at these censuses and their statistical analysis, one striking feature constantly comes to light: they reveal to u…
Magic, popular medicine and gender in seventeenth‐century Mexico
(1994). Magic, popular medicine and gender in seventeenth‐century Mexico: The case of Isabel de Montoya. Social History: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 189-207
Right from the Heart
Exporting the Catholic Reformation
This study introduces a novel, cultural interpretation to the overall impact of the Catholic Reformation in Europe on the changing facets of the religious life in the indigenous communities of southern Mexico, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It examines the modes by which Spanish mendicant priests translated norms, standards and mores enforced by the Tridentine dogma into the far-removed contexts of the New World. Using a rich var…
"Revalorando" las Luces en el mundo hispano
Analyse du fonds de librairie d'Agustin Dhervé, premier libraire ayant pignon sur rue à Mexico, au milieu du XVIIIe siècle
The Social Significance of Benevolent and Malevolent Gifts Among Single Caste Women in Mid-Seventeenth-Century New Spain
This article reconsiders the model of the “alternative household” of single, unattached caste women in mid-seventeenth-century New Spain. It also explores the particular “strategies of survival” adopted by single women to challenge, to undermine, and to overcome local conditions, barriers, and norms of suppression, as well as to regenerate and reformulate change, and to effect revenge, from their alternative, familial frameworks. Benevolent and m…
"Communities of Memory" In the Valley of Toluca
A close study of Metepec's tale of remembrance brings to light distinct and unique representations of significant episodes and social and political circumstances in its pre-Cortesian past, as well as in the early colonial period. These divergent representations were created by closed circles of factions, neighbors, elders, and kin in this "community of memory" who wished to claim special rights and prerogatives over their shared past. As such, th…
Nahua Repositories of Social Memory
Through the analysis of two exemplary sources pertaining to the genre of the Nahua primordial titles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the aim of this essay is to contribute further to our understanding of how this distinct Nahua colonial genre can be used for the study of Nahua social memory during Spanish colonial times. More precisely, what this present essay endeavors to identify the subtextual and supra-textual layers in these two…
Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
Introduction 1. Primers of Mesoamerican social memory 2. The sources and their applications 3. Binding and transcendence 4. In search of harmoniousness 5. Dispersal and fragmentation 6. Rites and times of foundations 7. A new cult, a new temple Epilogue: a Popolocan memory tale
Nahua Patterns of Colonization in Maya Towns of Guatemala, 1524 to 1582
This article seeks to further contribute to our understanding of the outcomes of earlier Nahua-Spanish alliances after Guatemala was pacified. The richly documented struggles of the Maya-Pok'omam communities around Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala between 1524 and 1580 reveal - in microcosm - the larger processes some of them stretching back into the pre-contact period that Mesoamerican scholars call ‘conquest-after-conquest.’ As this essay highlights…
Laura E. MATTHEW. Memories of Conquest
Laura E. Matthew's fine book unfolds a highly sophisticated scholarly inquiry into a theme currently on the cutting-edge of Mesoamerican historiography. The book contains six progressive chapters and employs a myriad of archival sources, ranging from parish and confraternity records to civil and criminal minutes, censuses and tribute lists, and major Spanish colonial Residencia proceedings. Indeed, this present study is an immense elaboration of …
Between History, Memory, and Law
A deep reading of testimony delivered at the Spanish colonial court of the Audiencia uncovers distinctive speech formulas, nonverbal cues, and conceptual constructs that throw light on the intentions and goals, as well as the cultural predispositions, of communities and individuals. Historians can employ a similar methodology to derive patterns of "cognitive schemata" from testimony in other legal settings of the early modern era
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present. This publication is important; first, because of the historical and contemporary centrality of religion in the life of Latin America; second, for the rapid process of religious change which the region is undergoing; and third, for the region's religious distinctiveness in global comparative terms, which contribu…
Contrasting Resistance and Alliances in the Ethnic State of Napiniaca, Chiapas (Mexico) (1521-1590)
The present article aims to re-evaluate the gamut of ostensible alliances forged between colonial subordinates and those who subordinated them in the ethnic state of Napiniaca, Mexico, as well as identify the social spaces and contexts in which such alliances were formed and ultimately fell apart. It will do so by attempting to “unwrap” indigenous strategies and forms of resistance based on the admittedly limited texts we currently possess, in li…
Salvaging Recurring Themes of Historical Memory in the Cohuixca Province of Tepecoacuilco (Cohuixcatlacapan), Guerrero, Mexico, 1460 to 1580
This article aims to fill in some of the lacunae that still exist regarding the Cohuixca ethnicity of the northeastern part of the State of Guerrero. To do so, it introduces a qualitative methodological approach into ethnohistory, which discerns pervasive patterns of special understanding that guided indigenous testimony in the colonial Spanish courtroom. It emphasizes that early colonial Cohuixca testimonies were deeply influenced by what are ca…
El "relato de memoria" de los axoxpanecas (Posclásico tardío a 1610DC)
En contraste con estudios anteriores del título Ajusco, el objetivo del artículo es la comprensión de este título único y sus vínculos íntimos con el patrimonio cultural de los nahuas. Concretamente, me centraré en el significado esencial de la conceptualización nahua del tiempo y el espacio. La copia de la Biblioteca Lafragua en Puebla, que es una transcripción completa del original, probablemente en 1768, fue desenterrada recientemente por Lidi…
Learning from poor single women’s autonomous households in Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
What is the ability of poor single women today to maintain an economically autonomous household? In the context of gender power relations, the literature often employs the concept of de-familialisation, which is the degree to which a woman is able to maintain an autonomous household without having to depend on a male breadwinner. Scholars argue that current welfare reforms deliberately aim at re-establishing the family as the primary source of ec…
The Sixteenth-Century Zinacantepec Census
While earlier census studies yielded population data mainly for the Tepetlaoztoc and Morelos regions of central Mexico during the 1530s and 1540s, this ethnohistoric study, based on a newly discovered manuscript, sheds light on household types and population density in the town of Zinacantepec by 1574. By comparing population figures, household types, and migration patterns, this article reconsiders how Aztec invasion, and thereafter the Spanish …
Enclosures With Inclusion” Vis-À-Vis “Boundaries” in Ancient Mexico
Recent in-depth research on the Nahua Corpus Xolotl, as well as on a large variety of compatible sources, has led to new insights on what were “boundaries” in preconquest Nahua thought. The present article proposes that our modern Western concept of borders and political boundaries was foreign to ancient Mexican societies and to Aztec-era polities in general. Consequently, the article aims to add a novel angle to our understanding of the notions …
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