The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico / / Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol.

The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the Relación was produced by a Franciscan friar together with indigenous noble informants and anonymous native artists who crea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Th e Making and the Makers of the Relación de Michoacán
  • 2. Unfaithful Lovers and Malicious Sorcerers
  • 3. Making and Emending Landscape in the Petamuti’s Speech
  • 4. Creating Chichimec-Uanacaze Ethnic Identity
  • 5. Mimicry, Identity, and the Tree of Jesse
  • 6. Memories of an Ethnographic Funeral
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index