History belongs to those who work it. Indigenous documents: a window to the past

Abstract

The view of history as a boring class can change if other possibilities are explored in order to know the past. To break this trend, we could ask ourselves how we can motivate people to like history. This paper explores one answer to this question, through the study of primary titles of indigenous towns. The article begins with a little-known episode of Emiliano Zapata, in which, before becoming a revolutionary, he ventured to research the meaning of primary titles of Anenecuilco town. In this way, primary titles are a valuable opportunity to explore indigenous memory as a body of living beliefs in constant transformation, showing that there are other ways to look at history.

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