Date: Monday, February 27, 2012. 5:30 PM.
Location: Cummings Art Building, AR2
History, Identity, and Justice in Sixteenth-Century Michoacán, Mexico Around 1539, the Spanish viceroy to Mexico Antonio de Mendoza commissioned a Franciscan friar to record the customs of what is today the state of Michoacán, Mexico, so that he could govern it more effectively. The friar, together with indigenous artists and noble informants from two distinct ethnic factions, produced the illustrated manuscript known as the “Relación de Michoacán.” This presentation analyzes the Relación’s images of justice, their representation of the body and its relationship to history and ethno-political power. Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she teaches the history of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American art and architecture. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship also from the Mellon Foundation and ACLS. She studies the construction and representation of race and ethnic identities in relation to territorial domains, justice, and political systems. She recently published the essay “The Tree of Jesse and the ‘Relación de Michoacán’: Mimicry and Identity in Colonial Mexico” (The Art Bulletin, December 2010) and she is currently working on a book entitled The “Relación de Michoacán” and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico.
Location: Cummings Art Building, AR2
History, Identity, and Justice in Sixteenth-Century Michoacán, Mexico Around 1539, the Spanish viceroy to Mexico Antonio de Mendoza commissioned a Franciscan friar to record the customs of what is today the state of Michoacán, Mexico, so that he could govern it more effectively. The friar, together with indigenous artists and noble informants from two distinct ethnic factions, produced the illustrated manuscript known as the “Relación de Michoacán.” This presentation analyzes the Relación’s images of justice, their representation of the body and its relationship to history and ethno-political power. Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she teaches the history of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American art and architecture. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship also from the Mellon Foundation and ACLS. She studies the construction and representation of race and ethnic identities in relation to territorial domains, justice, and political systems. She recently published the essay “The Tree of Jesse and the ‘Relación de Michoacán’: Mimicry and Identity in Colonial Mexico” (The Art Bulletin, December 2010) and she is currently working on a book entitled The “Relación de Michoacán” and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico.