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161 . Index , academic historians: anxieties of, 138; conversations with, 13, 14, 19, 58, 59, 134, 137; debating value of history, xii, 22, 28–29, 137, 145; in Mexican institutions, 3, 57, 58–59, 74, 85, 88, 89, 90, 105, 123, 137, 143; relations with municipal chroniclers, 59, 89; writing microhistory, 3, 33, 59, 85, 141; of region, xv, 3, 7–8, 58, 59. See also El Colegio de Jalisco; El Colegio de Michoacán; González y González, Luis; history; Muriá, José María; oral history; Oxford history; University of Pennsylvania; written history anthropology, 17; as opposed to history, 14, 19, 29; of history, xiii–xiv, 14–15. See also methodology; perceptions of researcher by informants antiquity of settlements: disputes about, 50, 52, 116, 132; relative to other settlements, 11–12, 41–42, 113–14, 121, 125, 126–34. See also civic status of settlements; founding of towns; indigenous people or Indians anxiety about knowing history, 52, 62, 66–67, 71, 138. See also authority to tell history Apache, comparison with, 53–54 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 62, 78 archaeology and archaeological remains, 21, 42–43, 49–50, 63, 68, 75, 83. See also pre-Hispanic architecture. See buildings and settlement layout archives: church, 56, 106, 114; findings in, 12, 56, 114, 126; creating own, 51, 57; distance and access to, 47–48, 51, 54, 55–56, 57, 106, 114, 138; municipal, 55, 127; value attributed to, 43, 51, 74. See also documents Atemajac, 16, 97, 102 authenticity: of documents, 58 (see also truth of history); of tourism destinations, 66, 141 (see also tourism: rustic [típico] as tourist image) authority that derives from knowing history, xii, 15, 17, 138–39; from producing secular history, 104, 105–7; as sign of cultura, 44–45, 57, 123 (see also cultura [cultivation]); marking as good or eminent citizens, xii, 17, 29, 45, 54, 59, 75, 95, 123, 136, 143–44 (see also citizenship and history). See also authority to tell history; history authority to tell history: allowing to shape others’ histories, 112, 117, 120–21, 128; deferring to someone with, 20, 55, 57, 64 161 index 162 64–65, 117; from studying history, 57, 131; lack of, 48, 52, 54, 81, 88, 138; to produce full-fledged history, 15, 29–30, 44, 52, 54, 62, 63, 65, 75; to produce or challenge national history, 81, 88; shown by confidence, 29, 30, 55, 57. See also anxiety about knowing history; authority that derives from knowing history; challenging others’ histories; history belonging. See rooting (arraigo) buildings and settlement layout, 11–12, 37, 39, 48–50, 66, 69–70, 120, 129. See also Church, Catholic: buildings; plaza; urban California, fieldwork in, xii, xiii, xiv, 21, 71– 73, 134, 142. See also migration: to California and other U.S. destinations; U.S., comparison to Catholicism. See Church, Catholic challenging others’ histories, 45, 54, 59, 74– 75, 81–92 passim, 101, 131, 138, 141. See also authority to tell history; official history: scepticism about children. See young people and children chroniclers, municipal: beyond Tapalpa, 56, 57–58, 59, 75, 140, 141; of Tapalpa, 21, 25, 26–27, 56–59, 75, 104; relations with academic historians, 59, 89 Church, Catholic: archdiocese of Guadalajara, 98; buildings, 5, 43, 49, 55, 95, 98, 100–101, 104, 114–15; churchyards, 36, 37, 49; conservative Catholicism, xv; diocese of Ciudad Guzmán, 35, 98, 102, 104; lay leaders, 101–3, 104, 106; liberation theology, 35, 102–3, 104; role in education, 140; sponsoring or publishing history, 98, 101–3, 104, 123–24, 142–43; traditional Catholicism, 106. See also festivals (fiestas): church-related; priests cities, xiv. See also Ciudad Guzmán; civic status of settlements: town as opposed to city; Guadalajara; history of towns and cities; migration: to Guadalajara and other cities; urban citing sources and giving credit, 27, 44–45, 52. See also copying from other histories and documents; evidence for history citizenship: broader views of, xiv, 17–18, 45–46, 77–78, 147–49; local understandings of, 18, 45–46, 90–94, 147; as membership of community, 77–78, 143 (see also rooting [arraigo]); of priests, 95, 103–4, 106–7; relation to government, 46; shifts in, 145; tests, xii, 61, 138. See also authority that derives from knowing history; citizenship and history; cosmopolitan: citizens; cultura (cultivation); good or eminent citizens; rights; urban citizenship, as opposed to national citizenship and history, xii, 34, 45, 59, 90, 123, 135, 143–44, 148. See also citizenship; history Ciudad Guzmán, 9–10...
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