Angélica Afanador-Pujol
Afanador-Pujol specializes in the art, material culture and architecture of the Indigenous people of Ancient and Colonial Latin America. Professor Afanador-Pujol’s research interests include indigenous agency and the social function of art as it intersects with race and ethnic relations, justice, political interests, and consumption in early sixteenth-century Mexico.
Professor Afanador-Pujol is the academic director of the ASU-LACMA fellowship in Art History which pairs academic instruction and on-the-job work experience.
Education
Area of study
Research Interests
Pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Art of the Americas
Selected Publications
Books
The Relación de Michoacán and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, July 2015.
- For a review in English see: Susan Kellogg, “The Relación de Michoacán and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico,” Historian (2017) 79: 329-331. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hisn.12510/full
- Michela Craveri, “The Relación de Michoacán and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico,” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2017) 94, no. 9: 1039-1040.
- Luise Enkerlin Pauwells, “Reseñas: Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol, The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico,” Relaciones 145 (2016): 326-330. http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/rz/v37n145/0185-3929-rz-37-145-00326.pdf
Co-Authored books
Ricardo Aguilar and Angélica Afanador Pujol. Comunicación y Nobleza en la Provincia de Michoacán: La Información de Méritos y Servicios de don Don Antonio Huitziméngari (1553). Morelia: Exconvento de Tiripetio and Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2019.
Journal Essays and Book Chapters
“The Tree of Jesse and the ‘Relación de Michoacán’: Mimicry and Identity in Colonial Mexico.” The Art Bulletin, December 2010, 293-307.
Translated and published as “El Árbol de Jessé y la Relación de Michoacán: Mimetismo en el México Colonial,” trans. Ricardo Aguilar. In ed. Yaminel Bernal Astorga, Morelia, la Construcción de una Ciudad, 19-56. Ayuntamiento de Morelia, Dirección del Archivo General, Histórico y Museo de la Ciudad; Archivo Histórico Municipal de Morelia, 2015.
“J. Benedict Warren y su contribución a estudios michoacanos en Estados Unidos.” In ed. Luise Enkerlin Pauwells, Abriendo Caminos. El Legado de Joseph Benedict Warren a la Historia y a la Lengua de Michoacán, 47-68. Morelia: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, El Colegio de Michoacán, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas-Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Universidad de Keio, Morevalladolid, 2012.
“Let the Waters and the Pigments Flow on These Pages: Making and Emending Landscape in the Relación de Michoacán.” In ed. Tom Cummins, Emily Engel, Barbara Anderson, and Juan Ossio. Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru: New Questions and Approaches. Series Issues and Debates, 141-159. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2014.
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Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol and Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni, “Spanish America: Precolumbian and Colonial Art” In ed. Katherine D. McCann, Handbook of Latin American Studies 74, 1-21. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
“Indigenous Manuscripts of Ancient and Early Colonial Mesoamerica (13th-16th centuries).” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/a Literature. Oxford University Press, 2020.