...Elena FitzPatrick Sifford The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico . By Afanador-Pujol Angélica Jimena . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . xi+300 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $65 cloth...

... an understudied region of Mesoamerica. For too long, a more extensive document, the Relación de Michoacán , has dominated investigations of the Tarascan state, a late pre-Hispanic polity centered in West-Central Mexico, and wider Tarascan culture and history. I discuss how reading both documents in light of one...

...Martin Nesvig In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including...

... for Ethnohistory 2021 “The empire was a joke” (172). This is one of the culminating conclusions of Martin Austin Nesvig’s compelling and eminently readable study of the extension (or not) of colonial power to Michoacán in its first century of Spanish rule. In a series of chronologically ordered case studies...

... and passivity that suggested domination and submission, and how this model of male-male sexual relations is inadequate and problematic for understanding historical realities. The Details of a 1604 Sodomy Case in Valladolid, Michoacán At around 2:00 p.m. on 15 August 1604, the day of the local...

... and vitality of local communities in the colonial period and beyond. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 Los escudos de armas indígenas de la colonia al México independiente . Edited by María Castañeda de la Paz and Hans Roskamp . ( Zamora, Michoacán : El Colegio de...

... of Aguascalientes, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Sinaloa, and Zacatecas. This text is multidisciplinary and binational, incorporating both editors and contributors from Mexico and the United States in the fields of anthropology, archeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography. The editors...

..., and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920–1935 ; Jennie Purnell’s Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacán ; and Mark Lawrence’s Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926–1929: Fighting Cristeros . ...

... in Postcontact Mexico,” is set in a multiethnic and overwhelmingly indigenous imperial periphery in the former Tarascan empire in the diocese of Michoacan, where Nahuatl served as a language for trade and colonial administration. Missionary priests, the protagonists of John F. Schwaller’s essay...

.... 2 . Mexico City : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . 1986b Relaciones geográficas del siglo XVI: México . Vol. 3 . Mexico City : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . 1987 Relaciones geográficas del siglo XVI: Michoacán . Mexico City : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de...

..., Xicanlanca, Toltec, Chichimeca, Tepanec, Mexican, and Teochichimeca peoples as New Spain’s “principal Indian nations,” while other groups, such as the peoples of Tlaxcala and Michoacan, would be covered in a complete study projected by the author (191). The Idea was thus an outline of a fuller...

... conquerors. Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 References Afanador-Pujol Angélica 2010 The Tree of Jesse and the “Relación de Michoacán”: Mimicry in Colonial Mexico . Art Bulletin 92 : 293 – 307 . Alva Ixtlilxochitl Fernando de 1997 Obras históricas...

... of the central plateau and Michoacán. To persuade workers to come, indigenous migrants in Zacatecas were exempted from tribute and forced labor drafts, and free wage labor quickly became the mainstay of the economy. Many Indians developed the specialized skills demanded by the mining industry, and, overall...

.... This is an important study of an essential commodity without which land can be use- less and life, whether communal or individualistic, is impossible. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of West- ern Mexico...

.... This is an important study of an essential commodity without which land can be use- less and life, whether communal or individualistic, is impossible. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of West- ern Mexico...

.... This is an important study of an essential commodity without which land can be use- less and life, whether communal or individualistic, is impossible. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of West- ern Mexico...

.... This is an important study of an essential commodity without which land can be use- less and life, whether communal or individualistic, is impossible. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of West- ern Mexico...

.... This is an important study of an essential commodity without which land can be use- less and life, whether communal or individualistic, is impossible. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of West- ern Mexico...

.... This is an important study of an essential commodity without which land can be use- less and life, whether communal or individualistic, is impossible. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of West- ern Mexico...

.... This is an important study of an essential commodity without which land can be use- less and life, whether communal or individualistic, is impossible. Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of West- ern Mexico...