...David L. Haskell The recent translation and description of La memoria de don Melchor Caltzin , produced in 1543 and the earliest document written in the Tarascan (Purhépecha) language, opens an important window into the study of Tarascan historiography and state formation, which has generally been...

...Daniel Santana From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty: The Tarascan and Caxcan Territories in Transition . Edited by Andrew Roth-Seneff , Robert V. Kemper , and Julie Adkins . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2015 . viii +261 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, references...

... the reader that indeed there are pre- Tarascan archaeological remains worthy of research. One future objective should be gaining a better understanding of this region’s uncertain, perhaps largely independent relationship...

... and unofficial interpreters to unravel the complexities of the behavior of Spanish men in predomi- nantly indigenous cultural contexts on the edges of the old Tarascan federa- tion in Michoacán. One way to examine how Spanish men adopted aspects of indigenous culture like language is through...

..., and by doing away with the onerous practices of tribute collection and repartimiento, or forced labor drafts. By the mid-sixteenth century, diverse ethnic groups had settled in the city and made it their home; among them were Tonalteca, Mexica, Caxcanes, Otomi, Tlaxcalans, Tetzcoca, and Tarascans...

... meticulously researched book on the Relación de Michoacán (1539–41) sheds light on the careful crafting of history, both recent and ancient, on the part of two indigenous groups that made up the multiethnic Tarascan state: the migrant Uanacaze, and the isleños who originated on the islands of Lake...

.... Indeed, the volume’s examination of Christian concepts translated into Yucatec and K’iche’ Maya, Tarascan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Guarani, Tupi, and Chiquitano is one of its greatest strengths and contributions, allowing readers ample opportunity to compare strategies employed in the various regions...

... of the ancient Purépecha civilization, popularly known as the Tarascans. While the core area of the diocese was fairly uniformly made up of Tarascan speakers, the frontiers of the diocese included the wide multiplicity of languages seen in the southern region of the Archdiocese of Mexico, along...

... especially mobility, influenced how indigenous people created affiliations and identified themselves. They arrived primarily as individuals or in small groups from over a hundred communities of origin and included Tarascans, Nahuas, Otomis, Cocas, Tecuexes, and Cazcans among others. In many cases they had...

... in the politics of memory comes to the forefront in the chapters of Hans Ros- kamp, examining Tarascan and Nahua memories of the foundation of Tzin- tzuntzan, and Bas van Doesburg, who compares three Oaxacan accounts to demonstrate how “the past has been put at the service of the present” to assist...

... research spe- cialization is the Maya, so this area is well-represented in the dictionary. However, he also includes entries on other groups, such as the Tarascan 6999 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:4 / sheet 156 of and the Toltec, that are less well known...

..., especially among elites, dictated the use of an international symbol system as an act of social legiti- mization. Finally, the section presenting nine case studies contains impor- tant new data reported from the Lake Patzcuaro basin in the Tarascan area, Morelos, and the Maya region of Chikinchel...

..., and Criyincia in the Northern Bolivian Highlands 77 Demuth, Bathsheba. Law on the Land: Contesting Ethical Authority in the Western Arctic 469 Golovko, Evgeniy V. See Peter P. Schweitzer, Evgeniy V. Golovko, and Nikolai B. Vakhtin Haskell, David L. Tarascan Historicity: Narrative Structure...

... surrounding the Spanish traza, forming barrios of Nahuas, Tonaltecos, Tlaxcalans, and Tarascans. In 1610 these indigenous clusters to the north and south of the city eventually fused into two Indian towns, Tlacuitlapan and Tonalá.46 Throughout the colonial period, the city’s population of ethnically...

... 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...

...: Aztec, Mixtec, and Tarascan Works from 16th Century Austrian Collections .” Archiv für Völkerkunde 44 : 1 – 64 . Feest Christian . 1995 . “ The Collecting of American Indian Artifacts in Europe, 1493–1750 .” In America in European Consciousness , edited by Kupperman Karen Ordahl...

... longer life in that time was . . . that, ordinarily, they were made to do much corvée work [tequios]” (1985a: 205). In general, the RGs show that the belief that idleness endangered health was prevalent not only in the Nahua region (Burkhart 1989: 132) but in Zapotec (Antequera) and Tarascan...

... of Mexico retained their sacred connotations in the face of the new colonial order. In Pátzcuaro, the Spanish arrival meant the forced relocation of many Tarascan Indians northward, where they worked in the emerging silver mines; but the Tarascan elite’s synthesis into Spanish culture via matrimony...

... of Mexico retained their sacred connotations in the face of the new colonial order. In Pátzcuaro, the Spanish arrival meant the forced relocation of many Tarascan Indians northward, where they worked in the emerging silver mines; but the Tarascan elite’s synthesis into Spanish culture via matrimony...

... of Mexico retained their sacred connotations in the face of the new colonial order. In Pátzcuaro, the Spanish arrival meant the forced relocation of many Tarascan Indians northward, where they worked in the emerging silver mines; but the Tarascan elite’s synthesis into Spanish culture via matrimony...