Rethinking a Great Event

Corney, Frederick C.

doi:10.1215/9780822384687-002

States of Memory 2003

DOI: 10.1215/9780822384687-002

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Rethinking a Great Event

Frederick C. Corney¹

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Frayed at the Edges: Collective Memory and History on the Borders of Classic Maya Polities

Golden

2010

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This article explores social memory and history as they pertain particularly to secondary political centers on the edges of the Classic Maya kingdoms of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan. Over the course of the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900) the rulers of Maya polities in the Usumacinta River basin increasingly relied on the subordinate lords who governed these secondary centers to patrol and control the boundaries of their territories. For the rulers of any state, formulating an appropriate and coherent history to guide social memory is a critical political act for maintaining the cohesion of the political community. But as the Classic period progressed, client lords were increasingly permitted a formerly royal prerogative; they were accorded their own inscribed monuments. The monuments, together with associated ritual performances, were an integral part of the construction of history and collective memory in local communities and allowed secondary nobles to restructure social memory for their own interests. This trend, in turn, increased the potential for royal history and authority to be contested throughout the kingdom. Through several case studies this paper examines the ways that subordinate nobles could contest social memory and history sanctioned by primary rulers and the ways in which kings acted to maintain the reins of history and memory.

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Frayed at the Edges: Collective Memory and History on the Borders of Classic Maya Polities

Golden

2010

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The construction of identification with mnemonic engineering—toward a conceptual framework of identity-remembering

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New Directions in the Sociology of Collective Memory and Commemoration

Conway

2010

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The study of memory straddles a wide range of social science disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and geography. Within sociology, reviews of the literature have already been carried out, but these are now somewhat dated. This article takes the measure of recent prior research on the sociology of collective memory and commemoration by (1) proposing a classification of collective memory research; (2) organising the literature under the headings of theoretical developments, methodological strategies, and methodological challenges; and (3) offering suggestions for maximising the internal cohesion and external utility of the sub-field.

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Rethinking a Great Event

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Frayed at the Edges: Collective Memory and History on the Borders of Classic Maya Polities

Frayed at the Edges: Collective Memory and History on the Borders of Classic Maya Polities

The construction of identification with mnemonic engineering—toward a conceptual framework of identity-remembering

New Directions in the Sociology of Collective Memory and Commemoration

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