In Place of Gods and Kings
Subtitle: Authorship and Identity in the Relacion De Michoacan
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780806133119
Subjects: American history; Michoacâan de Ocampo (Mexico); Latin America - General; History - General History; Tarasco Indians; Michoacâan de Ocampo; History: World; Mexico; Latin America - Mexico; Anthropology - Cultural; History; Relacion de Michoacan; Caribbean & Latin American; Indians of Mexico; Michoacan de Ocampo
First sentence: If I were to begin this book about the Relacion de Michoacan in the usual way, I would structure my introductory remarks around the figure of the friar-compiler, the barefoot Franciscan in plate 1 (color section), who offers an open book, presumably the completed manuscript, to the man who commissioned it-the first viceroy of New Spain, Don Antonio de Mendoza.