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Author Murguía, Alejandro, 1949-

Title The medicine of memory : a Mexica clan in California / by Alejandro Murguía
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Phantoms in the mirror -- The "Good old mission days" never existed -- Josefa of Downieville: The obscure life and notable death of a Chicana in Gold Rush California -- Triptych: memories of the San Fernando Valley -- Gathering thunder -- Tropi(lo)calidad: Macondo in La Mission -- Petroglyph of memory -- The Marin Headlands: A meditation on place -- The homecoming of an Azteca-Mexica clan
Summary A portrait of the author's family history in California, along with reflections on the history of Hispanics in America since the 18th century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226)
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Lugo family.
Olivas family.
Murguía family.
Murguía, Alejandro, 1949-
Lugo family
Murguía, Alejandro, 1949-
Murguía family
Olivas family
Mexican Americans -- California -- Biography
Mexican Americans -- California -- History
Mexican American families -- California -- History
Aztecs -- First contact with other peoples -- California -- History
Mexican Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Aztecs -- First contact with other peoples
Mexican American families
Mexican Americans
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
California
California -- San Francisco
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002010187
ISBN 0292796374
9780292796379