9780826350374-0826350372-Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (Diálogos Series)

Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (Diálogos Series)

ISBN-13: 9780826350374
ISBN-10: 0826350372
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Paul Gillingham
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780826350374
ISBN-10: 0826350372
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Paul Gillingham
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (Diálogos Series) (ISBN-13: 9780826350374 and ISBN-10: 0826350372), written by authors Paul Gillingham, was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Mexico (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (Diálogos Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Mexico books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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In 1949, a group of villagers and ad hoc archaeologists dug up what they believed to be the remains of the last Aztec emperor, Cuauhte?moc, in a remote village in the mountains of central Mexico. State and local leaders enthusiastically promoted this remarkable discovery and nationalist celebrations erupted throughout the country. The festivities ended abruptly when professional Mexican archaeologists denied that the body was that of Cuauhte?moc, igniting what became the greatest scandal in the cultural politics of twentieth-century Mexico. Suddenly, Cuauhte?moc's bones were at the center of debates about the politics and mechanisms of Mexican national identity.

In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhte?moc's tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the set of ideas, beliefs, and dreams that bind societies to the nation-state.

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