Angelica Jimena Afanador-Pujol

The Relacion de Michoacan (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781477302392
• ISBN-10: 1477302395
• Artikelnr.: 41644322

Autorenporträt

By Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Making and the Makers of the Relación de Michoacán
2. Unfaithful Lovers and Malicious Sorcerers: Justice, Punishment, and the
Body
3. Making and Emending Landscape in the Petamuti’s Speech
4. Creating Chichimec-Uanacaze Ethnic Identity
5. Mimicry and Identity and the Tree of Jesse
6. Memories of an Ethnographic Funeral
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index