Galen Brokaw
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 682574 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Galen Brokaw |
| PRENOMES | Galen |
| SOBRENOME | Brokaw |
| ASSINATURA | BROKAW G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Montana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1720-6588 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Homo alphabeticus, la definición de la escritura y las escrituras mesoamericanas
Entre los investigadores que estudian sistemas de comunicación gráfica mesoamericanos hay un debate sobre cómo se debería definir el término “escritura”. Algunos limitan la escritura a la glotografía, es decir, sistemas que representan unidades lingüísticas (e.g., sonidos, sílabas o palabras); otros prefieren una definición más amplia que incluye la semasiografía, es decir, el uso de significantes que representan referentes sin pasar por medio de…
Texto y contexto en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
La naturaleza compleja de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala admite diferentes —y aun contradictorias— lecturas. La poca información que tenemos hasta el día de hoy acercade este autor indígena hace difícil una comprensión de la relación entre su obra y su contexto socioeconómico y político. Este ensayo propone esclarecer esta relación al combinar lo que se sabe de Guaman Poma deotras fuentes y un análisis de lo que …
Texto y contexto en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
La naturaleza compleja de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de FelipeGuaman Poma de Ayala admite diferentes —y aun contradictorias—lecturas. La poca información que tenemos hasta el día de hoy acercade este autor indígena hace difícil una comprensión de la relación entresu obra y su contexto socioeconómico y político. Este ensayo proponeesclarecer esta relación al combinar lo que se sabe de Guaman Poma deotras fuentes y un análisis de lo que el a…
"Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His "Nueva corónica
Book Review| August 01 2018 Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His “Nueva corónica.” Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His “Nueva corónica.” Edited by Adorno, Rolena and Boserup, Ivan. Danish Humanist Text and Studies. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015. Photographs. Illustration. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. 483 pp. Cloth, $78.00. Galen Brokaw Galen Brokaw Montana State University Sea…
Quipu
The quipu (also khipu or kipu) is a device of knotted and colored strings of vegetal or animal fiber used by the Incas and other Andean cultures to record information. The earliest universally recognized quipus, which were used by the Wari culture from at least the ninth century ce, employ primarily chromatic patterns created by wrapping different colored threads around the cords. Later Inca quipus appear to make use of colored pendant strings ra…
Texcoco
Into the Archive
Book Review| January 01 2013 Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru. By Burns, Kathryn. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.) Galen Brokaw Galen Brokaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 181–184. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642923 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
Gods of the Andes
Sabine Hyland’s new book presents an English translation of most of the Relación de las costumbres antiguas de los naturales del Pirú, an anonymous sixteenth-century text containing a description of native Andean religious beliefs and practices. The translated work includes a general description of Inca religion, sacrifices, temples, religious officials, divination, confession, penance, hermits, consecrated virgins, superstitions, and an account …
The First New Chronicle and Good Government
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, with its almost 400 full-page line drawings, has become a canonical text for Latin Americanists who work on the colonial period, but it is also a very challenging work. Guaman Poma’s broken Spanish and his use of Quechua certainly make it awkward to read, but the real difficulty lies in the convergence of Spanish and native Andean modes of thought, semiotic practices, and cultural sign…
Indigenous American Polygraphy and the Dialogic Model of Media
Indigenous American societies pose serious problems for traditional theories of orality, literacy, and writing. This article attempts to deconstruct the orality-literacy dichotomy that has traditionally informed anthropological thought (whether it be of anthropologists, historians, literary critics, or others). Using indigenous American media such as the Andean khipu, Moche fine-line painting, and Mesoamerican iconography as a starting and ending…
Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
Reviewed by: Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulation of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds Galen Brokaw Keywords Galen Brokaw, Lisa Voigt, Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulation of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds, the New World, Colonialism, Spain, Captivity Voigt, Lisa . Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulation of Knowle…
The History of the Incas
The emerging popularity of hemispheric American studies has led to an increased interest in English translations of Spanish chronicles from the colonial period. In the last 15 years, there have appeared several new translations and new editions of old translations of important colonial texts, ranging from José de Acosta’s Natural and Moral History of the Indies to Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. Brian Bauer and Vania Smith’…
Ollantay , the Khipu, and Eighteenth-Century Neo-Inca Politics
Most criticism of the secular Quechua play Ollantay has focused on the debate as to whether the play is essentially Hispanic or indigenous in origin. The reduction of this issue to such a binary opposition fails to take into consideration the essentially transcultural nature of the work. Regardless of whether or not a version of the story dramatized in Ollantay belonged to some kind of indigenous tradition, the alphabetic version that has survive…
The Cord Keepers
Book Review| April 01 2006 The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. By Frank Salomon. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xxi + 331 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations and maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper.) Galen Brokaw Galen Brokaw University of Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohisto…
Ambivalence, Mimicry, and Stereotype in Fernandez de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias
The conquest of America consists of a series of violent and elaborate ceremonies of possession. Along with the obvious physical presence of the Europeans, these ceremonies inevitably involve discourses. In "Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires," Patricia Seed explains that after marking physical presence on the land, "[t]he second part of the Roman-derived concept of possession was manifesting intent…
Toward Deciphering the Khipu
Gary Urton argues that the khipu employed a seven-bit system of binary coding based upon seven inherently binary characteristics. In most cases, he provides little if any ethnographic or historical evidence for the significance of individual binary features, and his justification for the larger binary code as following from Andean concepts of dualism is theoretically unfounded. Furthermore, the theory of binary coding suffers from numerous logica…
Agencias criollas
Agendas criollas: La ambiguedad en las letras hispano-americanas. Ed. Jose Antonio Mazzotti. Pittsburgh: Institute International de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000. 265 pages.This book is a collection of essays based on papers presented at a conference of the same title at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The goal of the conference was to explore the issue of criollismo before the Bourbon reforms in the co…
The Poetics of Khipu Historiography
The Andean khipu was a medium of colored knotted cords used to record different types of information in the pre-Columbian and colonial periods. Although currently there is no way to read the khipu that have survived, numerous texts written in the colonial period claim to have relied on khipu as sources of information. A comparison between two khipu transcriptions of Inca biographies on the one hand and the European biographical genre on the other…
Khipu Numeracy and Alphabetic Literacy in the Andes
The Poetics of Khipu Historiography
The Andean khipu was a medium of colored knotted cords used to record different types of information in the pre-Columbian and colonial periods. Although currently there is no way to read the khipu that have survived, numerous texts written in the colonial period claim to have relied on khipu as sources of information. A comparison between two khipu transcriptions of Inca biographies on the one hand and the European biographical genre on the other…
Texcoco
Toward Deciphering the Khipu
Gary Urton argues that the khipu employed a seven-bit system of binary coding based upon seven inherently binary characteristics. In most cases, he provides little if any ethnographic or historical evidence for the significance of individual binary features, and his justification for the larger binary code as following from Andean concepts of dualism is theoretically unfounded. Furthermore, the theory of binary coding suffers from numerous logica…
Khipu Numeracy and Alphabetic Literacy in the Andes
Ambivalence, Mimicry, and Stereotype in Fernandez de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias
The conquest of America consists of a series of violent and elaborate ceremonies of possession. Along with the obvious physical presence of the Europeans, these ceremonies inevitably involve discourses. In "Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires," Patricia Seed explains that after marking physical presence on the land, "[t]he second part of the Roman-derived concept of possession was manifesting intent…
Agencias criollas
Agendas criollas: La ambiguedad en las letras hispano-americanas. Ed. Jose Antonio Mazzotti. Pittsburgh: Institute International de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000. 265 pages.This book is a collection of essays based on papers presented at a conference of the same title at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The goal of the conference was to explore the issue of criollismo before the Bourbon reforms in the co…
Texto y contexto en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
La naturaleza compleja de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de FelipeGuaman Poma de Ayala admite diferentes —y aun contradictorias—lecturas. La poca información que tenemos hasta el día de hoy acercade este autor indígena hace difícil una comprensión de la relación entresu obra y su contexto socioeconómico y político. Este ensayo proponeesclarecer esta relación al combinar lo que se sabe de Guaman Poma deotras fuentes y un análisis de lo que el a…
Khipu Numeracy and Alphabetic Literacy in the Andes
Agencias criollas
Agendas criollas: La ambiguedad en las letras hispano-americanas. Ed. Jose Antonio Mazzotti. Pittsburgh: Institute International de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000. 265 pages.This book is a collection of essays based on papers presented at a conference of the same title at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The goal of the conference was to explore the issue of criollismo before the Bourbon reforms in the co…
The Poetics of Khipu Historiography
The Andean khipu was a medium of colored knotted cords used to record different types of information in the pre-Columbian and colonial periods. Although currently there is no way to read the khipu that have survived, numerous texts written in the colonial period claim to have relied on khipu as sources of information. A comparison between two khipu transcriptions of Inca biographies on the one hand and the European biographical genre on the other…
Ambivalence, Mimicry, and Stereotype in Fernandez de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias
The conquest of America consists of a series of violent and elaborate ceremonies of possession. Along with the obvious physical presence of the Europeans, these ceremonies inevitably involve discourses. In "Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires," Patricia Seed explains that after marking physical presence on the land, "[t]he second part of the Roman-derived concept of possession was manifesting intent…
Toward Deciphering the Khipu
Gary Urton argues that the khipu employed a seven-bit system of binary coding based upon seven inherently binary characteristics. In most cases, he provides little if any ethnographic or historical evidence for the significance of individual binary features, and his justification for the larger binary code as following from Andean concepts of dualism is theoretically unfounded. Furthermore, the theory of binary coding suffers from numerous logica…
Ollantay , the Khipu, and Eighteenth-Century Neo-Inca Politics
Most criticism of the secular Quechua play Ollantay has focused on the debate as to whether the play is essentially Hispanic or indigenous in origin. The reduction of this issue to such a binary opposition fails to take into consideration the essentially transcultural nature of the work. Regardless of whether or not a version of the story dramatized in Ollantay belonged to some kind of indigenous tradition, the alphabetic version that has survive…
The Cord Keepers
Book Review| April 01 2006 The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. By Frank Salomon. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xxi + 331 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations and maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper.) Galen Brokaw Galen Brokaw University of Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohisto…
The History of the Incas
The emerging popularity of hemispheric American studies has led to an increased interest in English translations of Spanish chronicles from the colonial period. In the last 15 years, there have appeared several new translations and new editions of old translations of important colonial texts, ranging from José de Acosta’s Natural and Moral History of the Indies to Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. Brian Bauer and Vania Smith’…
Indigenous American Polygraphy and the Dialogic Model of Media
Indigenous American societies pose serious problems for traditional theories of orality, literacy, and writing. This article attempts to deconstruct the orality-literacy dichotomy that has traditionally informed anthropological thought (whether it be of anthropologists, historians, literary critics, or others). Using indigenous American media such as the Andean khipu, Moche fine-line painting, and Mesoamerican iconography as a starting and ending…
Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
Reviewed by: Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulation of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds Galen Brokaw Keywords Galen Brokaw, Lisa Voigt, Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulation of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds, the New World, Colonialism, Spain, Captivity Voigt, Lisa . Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulation of Knowle…
The First New Chronicle and Good Government
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, with its almost 400 full-page line drawings, has become a canonical text for Latin Americanists who work on the colonial period, but it is also a very challenging work. Guaman Poma’s broken Spanish and his use of Quechua certainly make it awkward to read, but the real difficulty lies in the convergence of Spanish and native Andean modes of thought, semiotic practices, and cultural sign…
Gods of the Andes
Sabine Hyland’s new book presents an English translation of most of the Relación de las costumbres antiguas de los naturales del Pirú, an anonymous sixteenth-century text containing a description of native Andean religious beliefs and practices. The translated work includes a general description of Inca religion, sacrifices, temples, religious officials, divination, confession, penance, hermits, consecrated virgins, superstitions, and an account …
Into the Archive
Book Review| January 01 2013 Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru. By Burns, Kathryn. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.) Galen Brokaw Galen Brokaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 181–184. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642923 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
Quipu
The quipu (also khipu or kipu) is a device of knotted and colored strings of vegetal or animal fiber used by the Incas and other Andean cultures to record information. The earliest universally recognized quipus, which were used by the Wari culture from at least the ninth century ce, employ primarily chromatic patterns created by wrapping different colored threads around the cords. Later Inca quipus appear to make use of colored pendant strings ra…
Texcoco
"Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His "Nueva corónica
Book Review| August 01 2018 Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His “Nueva corónica.” Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His “Nueva corónica.” Edited by Adorno, Rolena and Boserup, Ivan. Danish Humanist Text and Studies. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015. Photographs. Illustration. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. 483 pp. Cloth, $78.00. Galen Brokaw Galen Brokaw Montana State University Sea…
Texto y contexto en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
La naturaleza compleja de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala admite diferentes —y aun contradictorias— lecturas. La poca información que tenemos hasta el día de hoy acercade este autor indígena hace difícil una comprensión de la relación entre su obra y su contexto socioeconómico y político. Este ensayo propone esclarecer esta relación al combinar lo que se sabe de Guaman Poma deotras fuentes y un análisis de lo que …
Texto y contexto en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
La naturaleza compleja de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de FelipeGuaman Poma de Ayala admite diferentes —y aun contradictorias—lecturas. La poca información que tenemos hasta el día de hoy acercade este autor indígena hace difícil una comprensión de la relación entresu obra y su contexto socioeconómico y político. Este ensayo proponeesclarecer esta relación al combinar lo que se sabe de Guaman Poma deotras fuentes y un análisis de lo que el a…
Homo alphabeticus, la definición de la escritura y las escrituras mesoamericanas
Entre los investigadores que estudian sistemas de comunicación gráfica mesoamericanos hay un debate sobre cómo se debería definir el término “escritura”. Algunos limitan la escritura a la glotografía, es decir, sistemas que representan unidades lingüísticas (e.g., sonidos, sílabas o palabras); otros prefieren una definición más amplia que incluye la semasiografía, es decir, el uso de significantes que representan referentes sin pasar por medio de…
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