Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial MexicoCondition: NewISBN-10: 1477302395EAN: 9781477302392ISBN: 9781477302392Publisher: University of Texas PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/01/2015Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmAuthor: Angélica Jimena Afanador-PujolGenre: HistoryBook Series: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the AmericasTopic: Arts & PhotographyItem Weight: 399gRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
Price: 46.22 USD
Location: GU14 0GT
End Time: 2024-12-14T03:17:56.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Return policy details:
Book Title: The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Represe
Title: The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Represe
ISBN-10: 1477302395
EAN: 9781477302392
ISBN: 9781477302392
Release Date: 07/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Arts & Photography
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Publication Name: Relación De Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / Mexico, Art & Politics, Book, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Design, Art, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
