Amos Megged
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Amos Megged PhD
(University of Cambridge
, 1988), is a senior lecturer in general history
at the University of Haifa
, Israel
. He was an editorial board member of the Colonial Latin American Historical Review.
Doctor of Philosophy
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(University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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, 1988), is a senior lecturer in general history
History
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at the University of Haifa
University of Haifa
The University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.The University of Haifa was founded in 1963 by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, Israel
Israel
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. He was an editorial board member of the Colonial Latin American Historical Review.
Recent publications
- Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica. Publicaciones de la Casa Chata, CIESAS, Cambridge UniversityUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
Press (2010) - Comparative Studies in Mesoamerican Systems of Remembrance. University of OklahomaUniversity of OklahomaThe University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...
Press. (Ed. with Stephanie Wood) (2009) - Cambio y persistencia: La religion indigena en Chiapas, 1521-1680. Mexico, CIESAS (2008)
- "'Communities of Memory' in the Valley of Toluca: The Town of Metepec. 1476-1643". In: EthnohistoryEthnohistory (journal)Ethnohistory is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1954 and published quarterly by Duke University Press on behalf of the American Society for Ethnohistory. It publishes articles and reviews in the fields of ethnohistory, historical anthropology and social and cultural history...
2008 55(2): 251-285 - "The Religious Context of an 'Unholy Marriage': Elite Alienation and Popular Unrest in the Indigenous Communities of Chiapa, 1570-1680". In: EthnohistoryEthnohistory (journal)Ethnohistory is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1954 and published quarterly by Duke University Press on behalf of the American Society for Ethnohistory. It publishes articles and reviews in the fields of ethnohistory, historical anthropology and social and cultural history...
, V.46, N.1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 149–172 - "The social significance of benevolent and malevolent gifts among single cast women in mid-seventeenth-century New Spain". In: Journal of Family History, V.24, N.4, pp. 420–440 (1999)
- "Exporting the Catholic Reformation: Local Religion in Early-Colonial Mexico". In: Series: Cultures, Beliefs, and Traditions, Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, V.2, New York, Brill (1996)
- "'Right from the Heart': Indians' Idolatry in Mendicant Preachings in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica". In: History of Religions, V.35, N.1.
- Mesoamerican Religions. In: A Special Issue on the Occasion of the Seventeenth International Congress of the History of Religions, Mexico City (Aug., 1995), pp. 61–82
- "Magic, Popular Medicine and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Mexico: The Case of Isabel de Montoya". In: Social HistoryJournal of Social HistoryThe Journal of Social History, was founded in 1967 and has been edited since then by Peter Stearns. The journal covers social history in all regions and time periods. Articles frequently combine sociohistorical analysis between Latin America, Africa, Asia, Russia, Western Europe and the United...
, V.19, N.2 (May, 1994), pp. 189–207 - The Rise of Creole Identity in Early Colonial Guatemala: Differential Patterns in Town and Countryside. In: Social HistoryJournal of Social HistoryThe Journal of Social History, was founded in 1967 and has been edited since then by Peter Stearns. The journal covers social history in all regions and time periods. Articles frequently combine sociohistorical analysis between Latin America, Africa, Asia, Russia, Western Europe and the United...
. V.17, N.3 (Oct., 1992), pp. 421–440 - "Accommodation and Resistance of Elites in Transition: The Case of Chiapa in Early Colonial Mesoamerica". In: The Hispanic American Historical Review, V.71, N.3 (Aug., 1991), pp. 477–500
Books
- Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- Exporting the Catholic Reformation: local religion in early-colonial Mexico (Brill, 1996)
- Oded Balaban, Amos Megged, Hugo Cañón, Universiṭat Ḥefah., et al, Impunidad y derechos humanos en America Latina: Perspectivas teoricas