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In Place of Gods and Kings: Authorship and Identity in the Relacion de Michoacan (review)

The ethno-historical significance of the Relación de Michoacán—a conquest-era text recording versions of the indigenous past, as well as moments from the first generation sixteenth-century “encounter”—has long been recognized. Cynthia Stone’s great achievement in this volume is to provide the most detailed study of this source to date, one that successfully argues for its literary as well as ethno-historical value. To do so, she redefines authorship to account for the multiple voices that together comprise the Relación, evident in the forms and colors of images as well as in written words. Stone makes creative use of concepts drawn from literary theory, history and anthropology in the service of a masterful “close reading” that allows her to unravel and reconstruct the multiple layers of this intriguing source.