Current Research and Prospects in Andean Ethnohistory

Bibliographic Data

ID2754232
AuthorsJohn V Murra (Cornell University, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume5
Issue1
Pages3-36
Publication date1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002387910004022x
OpenAlexW4313022429
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited24

In Recent Years Andean Ethnohistory Has Benefitted From Four new developments:First, is the greater accessibility of the classical chronicles, particularly since the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles in Madrid decided in 1956 to reprint Bernabé Cobo'sHistoria del Nuevo Mundowhich had gone out of print decades before. The BAE has since reprinted at reasonable prices many other titles, among them the indispensableRelaciones geográficas de Indias.Anyone who had tried to study pre-European Andean institutions in the libraries at Cuzco, Cuenca or Sucre even ten years ago knows how difficult it was then to check any claim or hypothesis at the source. Students were forced to use third-hand and incomplete references; many others in the Andes were discouraged from pursuing such studies because of the unavailability of the eyewitness or other early accounts

Archaeology · Art · Ethnohistory · Ethnology · Humanities · Political science · Reprint · Unavailability · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics