Author: José Corona NúñezPublisher:
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Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : es
Pages : 186
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Historia de los antiguos habitantes de Michoacán
Author: José Corona NúñezPublisher:
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Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : es
Pages : 186
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Los primitivos pobladores de Michoacán
Author: Jesús Romero FloresPublisher:
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Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : es
Pages : 24
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The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico
Author: Angélica Jimena Afanador-PujolPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477301070
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico. 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.
In Place of Gods and Kings
Author: Cynthia L. StonePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806181753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In Place of Gods and Kings presents a new reading of an important manuscript that has long been considered the foremost colonial-era source for information related to the indigenous inhabitants of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Drawing on recent trends in literary studies that call into question the universal validity of notions such as the unitary author and the primacy of alphabetic writing over oral and pictorial traditions, Cynthia L. Stone shows how this early relación (c. 1538-41) weaves together narrative strands representing the distinctive voices of four primary contributors. According to the Franciscan compiler, Jerónimo de Alcalá, the manuscript is a testament to enlightened colonial officials who recognized that some familiarity with native customs and beliefs would further the goals of evangelization and Spanish rule. This symbolic bridge between prehispanic and colonial times was articulated differently by the friar’s indigenous collaborators, however, who refused to accept their alleged cultural inferiority or fully renounce their previous allegiances. Thus, the drawings of the indigenous painters, reproduced in this volume in both color and black and white, evoke the sacred Mesoamerican tradition of “writing in pictures.” The epic history narrated by the former high priest pays tribute to the great regional culture hero, Taríacuri. And the account of the Spanish conquest provided by the indigenous governor converts the military defeat of his people into a moral victory and a paradigm for cultural survival.
Land Tenure and Settlement in the Tepalcatepec Lowland, Michoacán, Mexico
Author: Elinore M. BarrettPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
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Los chichimecas, apuntes para escribir la historia prehispánica de Michoacán
Author: Pablo G. MacíasPublisher:
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Category : Chichimecs
Languages : es
Pages : 326
Book Description
Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru
Author: Thomas B. F. CumminsPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts—the Galvin Murúa, the Getty Murúa, the Florentine Codex, and the Relación de Michoacán—were created and demonstrate why these objects must be studied in a comparative context. The forensic study of manuscripts provides art historians, anthropologists, curators, and conservators with effective methods for determining authorship, identifying technical innovations, and contextualizing illustrated histories. This information, in turn, allows for more nuanced arguments that transcend the information that the written texts and painted images themselves provide. The book encourages scholars to think broadly about the manuscripts of colonial Mexico and Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and employ new techniques and methods of research.
Journal of Mesoamerican Studies
Author: Bibliographic Guide to Anthropology and Archaeology
Author: Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Benson Latin American CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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