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Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva corónica

Author : Rolena Adorno,Ivan Boserup
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9788763542708

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Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva corónica by Rolena Adorno,Ivan Boserup Pdf

Honored by UNESCO’s Memory of the World designation, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) rewrites Andean history in accordance with the author’s goals of reforming Spanish colonial rule in the continent-spanning viceroyalty of Peru. Housed at the Royal Library of Denmark since the 1660s, brought to international attention in 1908, and first published in facsimile in 1936, the autograph manuscript has been the topic of research in Andean ethnology and related disciplines for several decades. Now, on the eve of the 400th anniversary of Guaman Poma’s composition of the Nueva corónica, a renowned group of international scholars has focused fresh attention on the work, its author, and its times. Accomplished Andeanists such as R. Tom Zuidema, Frank Salomon, Jan Szeminski, and Regina Harrison are joined by other notable and younger scholars to explore Andean institutions and ecology, Inca governance, Spanish conquest-era history, the transformations of native and European sources in Guaman Poma’s hand, and his multilingual artistic dexterity. The relationship of the manuscript to Fray Martín de Murúa’s chronicles and a critical analysis of claims about the Nueva corónica’s authorship round out the volume.

The First New Chronicle and Good Government

Author : Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477323410

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The First New Chronicle and Good Government by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala Pdf

One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and colonial Peruvian material culture ever done. Working from the original manuscript and consulting with fellow Quechua- and Spanish-language experts, Roland Hamilton here provides the most complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the first third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The sections included in this volume (pages 1–369 of the manuscript) cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of each of the Inca rulers and their wives, as well as a wealth of information about ordinances, age grades, the calendar, idols, sorcerers, burials, punishments, jails, songs, palaces, roads, storage houses, and government officials. One hundred forty-six of Guaman Poma's detailed illustrations amplify the text.

Guaman Poma

Author : Rolena Adorno
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292792357

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Guaman Poma by Rolena Adorno Pdf

In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history. She argues that Guaman Poma's work chronicles the emergence of a uniquely Latin American voice, characterized by the articulation of literary art and politics. Following the initial appearance of Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, the 1990s witnessed the creation of a range of new studies that underscore the key role of the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno in facilitating our understanding of the Andean and Spanish colonial pasts. At the same time, the documentary record testifying to Guaman Poma's life and work has expanded dramatically, thanks to the publication of long-known but previously inaccessible drawings and documents. In a new, lengthy introduction to this second edition, Adorno shows how recent scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives sheds new light on Guaman Poma and his work, and she offers an important new assessment of his biography in relation to the creation of the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.

Guaman Poma Y Su Cronica Ilustrada Del Peru Colonial

Author : Rolena Adorno
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8772897007

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Guaman Poma Y Su Cronica Ilustrada Del Peru Colonial by Rolena Adorno Pdf

Published on the occasion of the opening of the full digital edition of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) on the website of the Royal Libary, Copenhagen, this new book by one of the world's most prominent Guaman Poma-scholars contains a survey (in English and in Spanish) of recent research. Guaman Poma dedicated his Chronicle to Philip III, King of Spain, but it has been preserved since the 18th century in the Royal Library, Copenhagen. 'Rediscovered' by modern scholarship in 1908, it was included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' list in 1999. Written and illustrated by a Christianised native Andean of Southern Peru, several decades after the Spanish conquest, the Nueva corónica is a complex and unique mixture of historiography and utopianism. On one hand, it contains an entirely original framework for Andean historical self-understanding, as an alternative to the colonial viewpoint. On the other hand, based upon vivid written and graphic descriptions of Andean daily life and sufferings under colonial rule, Guaman Poma formulates far-reaching proposals for reform aimed at turning the chaotic viceroyalty into a dynamic self-governed kingdom within the Spanish empire. Guaman Poma envisioned this new order as Christian, but organised in accordance with Andean economic, social, and cultural tradition.

Native Traditions in the Postconquest World

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone,Tom Cummins
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0884022390

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Native Traditions in the Postconquest World by Elizabeth Hill Boone,Tom Cummins Pdf

"Important anthology marking, but not celebrating, the Columbian Quincentenary, directing attention to indigenous cultural responses to the Spanish intrusion in Mexico and Peru, utilizing as much as possible native documents and sources, and exploring mentalities. While we can benefit from the analysis and methodology in all contributions to this volume, items certain to interest Mesoamericanists include: Hill Boone, 'Introduction,' for the volume's orientation; Laiou, 'The Many Faces of Medieval Colonization,' for background, analysis of colonization as process, and its multiple forms; Lockhart, 'Three Experiences of Culture Contact: Nahua, Maya, and Quechua,' for special attention to language change as a reflection of broader cultural evolution in key areas; Hill Boone, 'Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico,' for an examination of the endurance of these forms in 16th-century Nahua culture; Wood, 'The Social vs.

Between Worlds

Author : Frances E. Karttunen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813520312

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Between Worlds by Frances E. Karttunen Pdf

Spanning the globe and the centuries, Frances Karttunen tells the stories of sixteen men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and anthropologists. These interpreters acted as uncomfortable bridges between two worlds; their own marginality, the fact that they belonged to neither world, suggests the complexity and tension between cultures meeting for the first time. Some of the guides were literally dragged into their roles; others volunteered. The most famous ones were especially skilled at living in two worlds and surviving to recount their experiences. Among outsiders, the interpreters found protection. sustenance, recognition, intellectual companionship, and employment, yet most of the interpreters ultimately suffered tragic fates. Between Worlds addresses the broadest issues of cross-cultural encounters, imperialism, and capitalism and gives them a human face.

How “Indians” Think

Author : Gonzalo Lamana
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816539666

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How “Indians” Think by Gonzalo Lamana Pdf

The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know about how colonial actors understood and theorized this complex historical transformation comes from Spanish sources. This makes the few texts penned by Indigenous intellectuals in colonial times so important: they allow us to see how some of those who inhabited the colonial world in a disadvantaged position thought and felt about it. This book shines light on Indigenous perspectives through a novel interpretation of the works of the two most important Amerindian intellectuals in the Andes, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Building on but also departing from the predominant scholarly position that views Indigenous-Spanish relations as the clash of two distinct cultures, Gonzalo Lamana argues that Guaman Poma and Garcilaso were the first Indigenous activist intellectuals and that they developed post-racial imaginaries four hundred years ago. Their texts not only highlighted Native peoples’ achievements, denounced injustice, and demanded colonial reform, but they also exposed the emerging Spanish thinking and feeling on race that was at the core of colonial forms of discrimination. These authors aimed to alter the way colonial actors saw each other and, as a result, to change the world in which they lived.

New Studies of the Autograph Manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva Corónica Y Buen Gobierno

Author : Rolena Adorno,Ivan Boserup
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 8772898380

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New Studies of the Autograph Manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva Corónica Y Buen Gobierno by Rolena Adorno,Ivan Boserup Pdf

In 2001 the Royal Library in Copenhagen launched a digital facsimile on the Internet of the unique manuscript Nuevá corónica from 1616 by the ethnic Andean Felipe Guaman Poma. These new technical studies supplement the facsimile with a description and analysis of the manuscript's features, and posits that the Copenhagen manuscript was the work of a single author, writing and drawing in his own hand.

Guaman Poma de Ayala

Author : Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala,Mercedes López-Baralt,Rolena Adorno
Publisher : America's Society Art Gallery
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art, Colonial
ISBN : UCSC:32106010274717

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Guaman Poma de Ayala by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala,Mercedes López-Baralt,Rolena Adorno Pdf

Publication for an exhibition organized by the Americas Society and held at their art gallery in New York, New York, January 29 to March 29, 1992.

Modern Inquisitions

Author : Irene Silverblatt
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0822334178

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Modern Inquisitions by Irene Silverblatt Pdf

DIVExplores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day./div

Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America

Author : Mabel Moraña,Carlos A. Jáuregui
Publisher : Iberoamericana Editorial
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 8484893235

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Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America by Mabel Moraña,Carlos A. Jáuregui Pdf

From the configuration of Empire in the colonial period to the multiple facets of modern coloniality, this book offers a challenging approach to the developments and effects of imperial domination and neocolonial rule in Latin American.

Gender in Pre-Hispanic America

Author : Cecelia F. Klein
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 088402279X

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Gender in Pre-Hispanic America by Cecelia F. Klein Pdf

Gender in Pre-Hispanic America offers rich opportunities for comprehending current trends and considering future directions in research. It is unique in that it puts social theory at the forefront of the discussion. The book has a special intellectual presence and contemporary relevance in its engagement with the social lives and constructs of its authors and readers alike. The consideration of the role of gender in our daily lives, including in our professions, becomes inescapable when reading this book. It is not simply a question of men's roles having been possibly overemphasized and overstudied to the detriment of women's. The fact that genders, as opposed to sexes, are socially constructed categories focuses our attention on the ways in which these and other social constructs have shaped our present understanding of the past and informed past peoples' understand of their present. In various articles in this book, the reader will not find unanimity in what is meant by "gender" or how to go about studying it. What will be found, however, is a collection of interesting, informed, thought-provoking, and often lively essays. It is hoped that this volume will mark a stage in an evolving study of this field and provoke new research in the future.

Colonial Mediascapes

Author : Matthew Cohen,Jeffrey Glover
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803254411

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Colonial Mediascapes by Matthew Cohen,Jeffrey Glover Pdf

In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of communication. Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Extending the textual foundations of early American literary history, the editors bring a wide range of media to the attention of scholars and show how struggles over modes of communication intersected with conflicts over religion, politics, race, and gender. This collection of essays by major historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars demonstrates that the European settlement of the Americas and European interaction with Native peoples were shaped just as much by communication challenges as by traditional concerns such as religion, economics, and resources.

Native Claims

Author : Saliha Belmessous
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199794850

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Native Claims by Saliha Belmessous Pdf

This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European colonization is well known. But legal resistance has been wrongly understood to be a relatively recent phenomenon. These essays demonstrate how indigenous peoples throughout the world opposed colonization not only with force, but also with ideas. They made claims to territory using legal arguments drawn from their own understanding of a law that applies between peoples - a kind of law of nations, comparable to that being developed by Europeans. The contributors to this volume argue that in the face of indigenous legal arguments, European justifications of colonization should be understood not as an original and originating legal discourse but, at least in part, as a form of counter-claim. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 brings together the work of eminent social and legal historians, literary scholars, and philosophers, including Rolena Adorno, Lauren Benton, Duncan Ivison, and Kristin Mann. Their combined expertise makes this volume uniquely expansive in its coverage of a crucial issue in global and colonial history. The various essays treat sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latin America, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America (including the British colonies and French Canada), and nineteenth-century Australasia and Africa. There is no other book that examines the issue of European dispossession of native peoples in such a way.

Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship

Author : Thomas Besom
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826353085

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Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship by Thomas Besom Pdf

The Inka empire was the largest pre-Columbian polity in the New World. Its vast expanse, its ethnic diversity, and the fact that the empire may have been consolidated in less than a century have prompted much scholarly interest in its creation. In this study, Besom explores the ritual practices of human sacrifice and the worship of mountains, attested in both archaeological investigations and ethnohistorical sources, as tools in the establishment and preservation of political power. Besom examines the relationship between symbols, ideology, ritual, and power to demonstrate how the Cuzqueños could have used rituals to manipulate common Andean symbols to uphold their authority over subjugated peoples. He considers ethnohistoric accounts of the categories of human sacrifice to gain insights into related rituals and motives, and reviews the ethnohistoric evidence of mountain worship to predict locations as well as motives. He also analyzes specific archaeological sites and assemblages, theorizing that they were the locations of sacrifices designed to assimilate subject peoples, bind conquered lands to the state, and/or justify the extraction of local resources.