04458nam 2200685 450 991081039430332120231219173254.01-4773-0106-210.7560/771383(CKB)3710000000417110(EBL)3443754(SSID)ssj0001497229(PQKBManifestationID)11967897(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497229(PQKBWorkID)11494503(PQKB)11012142(MiAaPQ)EBC3443754(OCoLC)909948085(MdBmJHUP)muse47946(Au-PeEL)EBL3443754(CaPaEBR)ebr11056915(DE-B1597)588646(OCoLC)1286808364(DE-B1597)9781477301067(EXLCZ)99371000000041711020150604h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the politics of representation in colonial Mexico /Angélica Jimena Afanador-PujolFirst edition.Austin, Texas :University of Texas Press,2015.©20151 online resource (300 p.)Recovering Languages and Literacies of the AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.0-292-77138-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.Illumination of books and manuscriptsMexicoMichoacán de OcampoIndians of MexicoEthnic identityIndians of MexicoMexicoMichoacán de OcampoHistoryMichoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)Politics and government16th centuryMichoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)History16th centuryIllumination of books and manuscriptsIndians of MexicoEthnic identity.Indians of MexicoHistory.972/.3701Afanador Pujol Angélica Jimena1973-1627237MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810394303321The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the politics of representation in colonial Mexico3963722UNINA