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Article: "EnCountering" colonial Latin American Indian chronicles: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's history of the "new" world.
- Article from:
- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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If Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are waiting for me on that nearby beach, I'm screwed.
Christopher Columbus, in Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra
ENCOUNTERING GUAMAN POMA: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
In 1908, the German anthropologist Richard Pietschmann discovered in an archive in Copenhagen an early-seventeenth-century manuscript consisting of nearly 1,200 pages of narrative written in Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara, as well as nearly 400 drawings. The author identified himself as Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (b. around 1535), son of Guaman Mallqui de Ayala, a person of prominence in the provincial Peruvian Yarovilca culture, and Curi Ocllo, the ...