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The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán /
"Investigates how elites of the Tarascan kingdom of Central Mexico sought to influence interactions with Spanish colonialism by reworking the past. Examines the rhetorical power of the Relación de Michoacán--by Franciscan friar Jerónimo de Alcalá and explaining the structure of the narrativ...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Two Taríacuris; The Contents of the Relación de Michoacán and the Priest's Speech; The Historical Context of the Production of the Relación de Michoacán; Literalist Assumptions and the Problem of Taríacuri; The Risks of Recent Emphases on Hybridity in the Relación de Michoacán; The Meaning of Taríacuri in the Relación de Michoacán; Chapter 2: The Tarascan Kingdom and Its Prehispanic Past in Mesoamerican Context; The Tarascan Kingdom, and Tarascan Culture, at the Moment of the Spanish Contact.
- Tarascan Historicity: The Role of the Priesthood in Tarascan CultureRegionalism versus Intercultural Influences in Prehispanic Michoacán; Modern Western Representations of the Prehispanic Past and Hypothesized Links to Other Mesoamerican Traditions; The Priest's Speech and Postclassic Mesoamerican Ideologies of Rulership; Tarascan and Mesoamerican Perceptions of Time and the Cosmos; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Methodological and Theoretical Background to the Analysis of the Priest's Speech: Historicity and Narrative Structure; Historicity and Social Action, Historicity as Process.
- A Critique of Structuralism as Applied to MythHistoricity and Structure as Construction; Historicity, Narrative, and Poiesis; A Method for the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Analysis of Structure; Genres of Narrative: Narrative Structure and the Myth versus History Debate; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Analysis of the Priest's Speech in the Relación de Michoacán; The First Half of the Narrative; The Narrative, Taríacuri, and the World Turn; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Tarascan Historicity in and through the Priest's Speech in the Relación de Michoacán.
- Introduction: The Priest, the Two Taríacuris, and the FutureTaríacuri as a Novel and Central Agency; Corínguaros as Antiagents; The Priest's Speech and the Future of the Tarascan Kingdom: The Present Taríacuri and the Past Taríacuri; Spaniards as a Development of the Corínguaro Category; Prehispanic and Colonial Tarascan Historicity in Practice; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Tarascan Historicity in Its Mesoamerican Context: Myth, History, Historicity, and Understanding the Prehispanic Past; Comparison with Wider Mesoamerican Narratives of Migration and Political History.
- The Poetic and Compositional Aspects of the Priest's Speech in a Comparative FrameworkNumber, Paradigm, and Syntagmatic Relations and Process at the Level of Entire Narratives; Cyclicity in and Surrounding the Tarascan-Spanish Colonial Encounter; The Priest's Speech, the Results of Analysis, and the Necessary Role of Syntagmatic Relations in a Mesoamerican Analytic Framework; Epilogue; References; About the Author; Index.