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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1607-050X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Desacatos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Desacatos]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1607-050X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-id>S1607-050X2016000100012</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[De una memoria truncada a una historia majestuosa: el caso de Lucas Alamán]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[From a truncated memoir to a magisterial history: The case of Lucas Alamán]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Van Young]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Eric]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de California San Diego ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ California]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>50</numero>
<fpage>12</fpage>
<lpage>27</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1607-050X2016000100012&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1607-050X2016000100012&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1607-050X2016000100012&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: En el artículo se ofrecen algunas reflexiones acerca de la escritura de biografías. Se utiliza la vida de Lucas Alamán, el gran estadista conservador e historiador del siglo XIX, como estudio de caso. Se propone la posibilidad de echar mucha luz sobre la vida, las obras históricas y la postura política de Alamán mediante un análisis de su memoria autobiográfica, escrita durante la década de 1830 y nunca publicada. En este documento se revela la preocupación del personaje por la pérdida de estatus social y fortuna de su familia, y su tendencia a entender la historia del México independiente en términos de fracaso.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: The article offers some reflections on the writing of biography, using as a case study the life of Lucas Alamán, the great nineteenth-century statesman and historian. It proposes that much light can be thrown on his life, historical works, and political position by an analysis of his unpublished autobiographical memoir written during the decade of 1830. This document reveals the preoccupation of its author with his family's loss of social status and wealth, and the tendency of Alamán to understand the history of independent Mexico as one of failure.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Lucas Alamán]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[biografía]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[autobiografía]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[memoria]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Independencia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[estatus social]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Lucas Alamán]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[biography]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[autobiography]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[memoir]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[memory]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Independence]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[social status]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
</article-meta>
</front><back>
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