The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán

Book Review| February 01 2021 The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán. By Haskell, David L.Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 263 pp. Paper, $31.95. Martin Nesvig Martin Nesvig University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 150–152. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796605 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Nesvig; The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2021; 101 (1): 150–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796605 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search This study is deeply researched, methodologically complex, and carefully considered. It is equal parts synthesis of archaeological and historiographical scholarship and granular analysis of a chronicle central to the colonial history of Michoacán, in western Mexico. An archaeologist by training, David Haskell offers a historicist analysis of the Relación de Michoacán, produced between 1539 and 1541 after New Spain's Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza ordered an accounting of Michoacán's history, religion, culture, and immediate colonial status. It discusses Michoacán's precontact history and immediately past colonial experiences. The source has been a staple of scholarship on colonial Michoacán and, as Haskell explains, was a product of collaboration between a Franciscan, Friar Jerónimo de Alcalá, and a coterie of literate, educated Purépecha men, many of them undoubtedly elites. Some scholars have viewed the Relación as a nearly literal accounting of Tarascan political history and... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 Issue Section: Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries You do not currently have access to this content

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