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Spring, 2005
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Book Review


The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California. By Alejandro Murguía. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xiv + 228 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $50.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.)
      In The Medicine of Memory, Alejandro Murguía reflects on his own place in California history by exploring his family's history and that of Hispanics in general in California. This lively and provocative approach to historical interpretation introduces a new twist in the discourse on the relation of memory to history. In recent years, historians have pondered deeply the implications of memory and history, conscious that the general public's sense of history often depends on present needs and interests rather than the professional historian's standards of evidence and interpretation. In this book, Murguía deliberately uses memory and history as the means for healing the pain of exclusion and, in the process, makes a strong case for subjective engagement with history. . . .
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