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 Culture
Regionalism 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 Myth
Historicity 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
Introduction: The Priest, the Two Taríacuris, and the Future
Taríacuri 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 Framework
Number, 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