Title The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán / by David L. Haskell

Published Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Two Taríacuris; The Contents of the Relación de Michoacán and the Priest's Speech; The Historical Context of the Production of the Relación de Michoacán; Literalist Assumptions and the Problem of Taríacuri; The Risks of Recent Emphases on Hybridity in the Relación de Michoacán; The Meaning of Taríacuri in the Relación de Michoacán; Chapter 2: The Tarascan Kingdom and Its Prehispanic Past in Mesoamerican Context; The Tarascan Kingdom, and Tarascan Culture, at the Moment of the Spanish Contact Tarascan Historicity: The Role of the Priesthood in Tarascan CultureRegionalism versus Intercultural Influences in Prehispanic Michoacán; Modern Western Representations of the Prehispanic Past and Hypothesized Links to Other Mesoamerican Traditions; The Priest's Speech and Postclassic Mesoamerican Ideologies of Rulership; Tarascan and Mesoamerican Perceptions of Time and the Cosmos; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Methodological and Theoretical Background to the Analysis of the Priest's Speech: Historicity and Narrative Structure; Historicity and Social Action, Historicity as Process A Critique of Structuralism as Applied to MythHistoricity and Structure as Construction; Historicity, Narrative, and Poiesis; A Method for the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Analysis of Structure; Genres of Narrative: Narrative Structure and the Myth versus History Debate; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Analysis of the Priest's Speech in the Relación de Michoacán; The First Half of the Narrative; The Narrative, Taríacuri, and the World Turn; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Tarascan Historicity in and through the Priest's Speech in the Relación de Michoacán Introduction: The Priest, the Two Taríacuris, and the FutureTaríacuri as a Novel and Central Agency; Corínguaros as Antiagents; The Priest's Speech and the Future of the Tarascan Kingdom: The Present Taríacuri and the Past Taríacuri; Spaniards as a Development of the Corínguaro Category; Prehispanic and Colonial Tarascan Historicity in Practice; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Tarascan Historicity in Its Mesoamerican Context: Myth, History, Historicity, and Understanding the Prehispanic Past; Comparison with Wider Mesoamerican Narratives of Migration and Political History The Poetic and Compositional Aspects of the Priest's Speech in a Comparative FrameworkNumber, Paradigm, and Syntagmatic Relations and Process at the Level of Entire Narratives; Cyclicity in and Surrounding the Tarascan-Spanish Colonial Encounter; The Priest's Speech, the Results of Analysis, and the Necessary Role of Syntagmatic Relations in a Mesoamerican Analytic Framework; Epilogue; References; About the Author; Index Summary "Investigates how elites of the Tarascan kingdom of Central Mexico sought to influence interactions with Spanish colonialism by reworking the past. Examines the rhetorical power of the Relación de Michoacán--by Franciscan friar Jerónimo de Alcalá and explaining the structure of the narrative, not just its content"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Relación de Michoacán -- Criticism, Textual Relación de Michoacán fast Subject Purépecha Indians -- Social life and customs Purépecha Indians -- History -- Sources Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo -- History -- Sources HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Indians of Mexico Purépecha Indians Purépecha Indians -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) -- History -- Sources Subject Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Sources Form Electronic book ISBN 9781607327493 160732749X

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