Peru: Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcaycamayoc Of Colonial Cuzco

Peru: Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcaycamayoc Of Colonial Cuzco Kathryn Burns, 2011   We are rapidly revising Angel Rama's concept of the “lettered city” (la ciudad letrada) to include indigenous writers and their texts. So far, however, Andeanists have focused mainly on those who wrote in Quechua or used quipu, a distinctively Andean form of record keeping. This article argues the importance of including indigenous writers who wrote in Spanish, particularly native Andean notaries...

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