The Pursuit of Ruins Robert K. Swihart and cultural imagination

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The Pursuit of Ruins Robert K. Swihart and cultural imaginationFamous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Under Diaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico's image as a