Which heritage for which heirs? The pre-Columbian past and the colonial legacy in the national history of Mexico.

How was the colonial legacy managed by the regime that emerged from the Mexican revolution (1910–1917)? Through the historical and ethnographic analysis of two foundation narratives written at an interval of 200 years in the Nahuatl village of Milpa Alta (DF), this article examines the State's attempt to establish a monopoly on the legitimate past by ‘eclipsing’ the colonial past in favour of the pre-Hispanic one, which became the national heritage in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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