Title The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the politics of representation in colonial Mexico / Angelica Jimena Afanador-Pujol

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas. Contents The making and the makers of the Relación de Michoacán -- Unfaithful lovers and malicious sorcerers : justice, punishment, and the body -- Making and emending landscape in the Petamuti's speech -- Creating Chichimec-Uanacaze ethnic identity -- Mimicry and identity and the Tree of Jesse -- Memories of an ethnographic funeral Summary 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 created its forty-four illustrations. To this day, the Relación remains the primary source for studying the pre-Columbian practices and history of the people known as Tarascans or P'urhépecha. However, much remains to be said about how the Relación's colonial setting shaped its final form. By looking at the Relación in its colonial context, this study reveals how it presented the indigenous collaborators a unique opportunity to shape European perceptions of them while settling conflicting agendas, outshining competing ethnic groups, and carving a place for themselves in the new colonial society. Through archival research and careful visual analysis, Angélica Afanador-Pujol provides a new and fascinating account that situates the manuscript's images within the colonial conflicts that engulfed the indigenous collaborators. These conflicts ranged from disputes over political posts among indigenous factions to labor and land disputes against Spanish newcomers. Afanador-Pujol explores how these tensions are physically expressed in the manuscript's production and in its many contradictions between text and images, as well as in numerous emendations to the images. By studying representations of justice, landscape, conquest narratives, and genealogy within the Relación, Afanador-Pujol clearly demonstrates the visual construction of identity, its malleability, and its political possibilities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record SUBJECT Relación de Michoacán. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88628081 Relación de Michoacán fast Subject Art -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- History Indians of Mexico -- Ethnic identity Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo ART -- Caribbean & Latin American. HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Art -- Political aspects Illumination of books and manuscripts Indians of Mexico Indians of Mexico -- Ethnic identity SUBJECT Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) -- History -- 16th century Subject Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477301067 1477301062

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