Mapping colonial Quechua through trial interpretations in 17 th -century Cajamarca

Bibliographic Data

ID12413139
AuthorsLuis Andrade Ciudad (0000-0001-7270-9033, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, corresponding author), Martha G Bell (0000-0001-8232-5738, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Year2016
Volume25
Issue4
Pages445-464
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueColonial Latin American Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1060-9164 • E-ISSN: 1466-1802
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10609164.2016.1281006
OpenAlexW2595841800
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

Andean linguistics has not determined the geographic extent in which Quechua was spoken in Peru's Cajamarca region during the colonial period. The debate centers on whether it ranged beyond where it is currently found in the ‘enclaves’ of Porcón and Chetilla. No previous systematic efforts have attempted to clarify this problem. Here, we seek to reconstruct 17th-century Quechua distribution using data from trial interpretations (oral language translations carried out during the testimonies) in the document series ‘Protector de Naturales' (‘Advocate of the Indians’), held in the Regional Archive of Cajamarca. We represent this data cartographically using the dot density map technique, a visualization method that allows us to conclude that in the 17th century Quechua covered a wider territory than that which is currently observed. We suggest that this method could be applied in other contexts, to increase knowledge of the historical distribution of indigenous languages in South America

Archaeology · Colonial period · Colonialism · Distribution (mathematics · Ethnology · Geography · Historical linguistics · Indigenous · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Latin American history and culture · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Philosophy · Ecology

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