Making Indigenous Archives
The Quilcaycamayoc of Colonial Cuzco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2825211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Burns (0000-0002-2695-1088, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 665-689 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-1416666 |
| OpenAlex | W2124077453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 56 |
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 (escribanos de cabildo). Viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered such notaries into existence in the 1570s as part of his ordinances concerning Indians. One of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's most widely reproduced drawings depicts this very figure. He is labeled both "escribano de cabildo" and "quilcaycamayoc" (paper keeper), suggesting a possible connection between these writers and the quipucamayoc who kept Andean quipu archives. Burns uses evidence from the Cuzco region to flesh out these men's activities, examine the archives they made, and raise questions about their connections to quipu literacy. Andean notaries are presented as a kind of double-edged sword - as crucial intermediaries vis-à-vis the Spanish colonial bureaucracy who might work both for and against their communities' interests. The archival traces of this Andean notariate oblige us to rethink our notion of the "lettered city" as an urban phenomenon centered exclusively on elite Spaniards
Archaeology · Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Elite · Ethnology · Indigenous · Intermediary · Political science · Politics · Sociology · SWORD · Anthropology · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Latin American history and culture · Law
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2011
Archiving Faith
Tensiones en la transición. Prácticas sucesorias y autoridad cacical en Jesús de Machaca (Pacajes, Audiencia de Charcas, 1570-1690)
Contar concertando
Testimony from knotted strings
El papel como artefacto y comunicación en Guaman Poma
El papel como artefacto y comunicación en Guaman Poma
Beyond Jurisdictions
The Lima Indian Letrados
Notaries of Color in Colonial Panama
Guardianes de la real justicia
Indigenous People and Legal Culture in Spanish America
Unreliable Confessions
The Many Tongues of the King
El quipu colonial
Los procuradores de naturales de las audiencias de Lima y Cusco
Indigenous Record Keeping and Hacienda Culture in the Andes
Between the "Old Law" And the New
Saber y poder
The naturalization of Andean Christianities
Aztec Pictorial Histories
El alférez real de los incas
What Was the Lengua General of Colonial Peru
Mesoamerican Astronomy and the Ritual Calendar
La educación de las elites indígenas en el Perú colonial
“What in the World Have You Done To Me, My Lover?” Sex, Servitude, and Politics among the Pre-Conquest Nahuas as seen in the Cantares Mexicanos
Cuando Occidente y los Andes se encuentran
El canon memorioso forjado por los Títulos primordiales
Khipu Numeracy and Alphabetic Literacy in the Andes
The genesis of Felipe Guaman poma de ayala's nueva corónica y buen gobierno ∗
The inka language in the colonial world
More Ladino than Necessary’
Saldos del criollismo
La educación en el Perú colonial
Los vasallos se desentrañan por su rey”
Qaraqara-Charka
El Mosaico indígena
Bad Christians in colonial Peru∗
Jesuit Contributions to the Ideology of Spanish Empire in Mexico Part I
Heirs to the Hieroglyphs
Del paganismo a la santidad
Rectification to ‘Notes on the Authorship of the Huarochirí Manuscript
Native-Language Literacy in Colonial Peru
Ethnic Power and Identity Formation in Mid-Colonial Andean Writing
Unreliable Confessions
Notes on the Authorship of the Huarochirí Manuscript
Hybridity and Its Discontents
La imaginacion historiografica de Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl
The Truth about the Crónica Mexicayotl
The Devil and Deviance in Native Criminal Narratives From Early Mexico
The First American Valentine
Notaries, Truth, and Consequences
Between Sovereignty and Culture
El "relato de memoria" de los axoxpanecas (Posclásico tardío a 1610DC)
Khipu Archives
Colonial Indian Maps in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
The Limits of Religious Coercion in Mid-Colonial Peru
Du bon usage des quipus face à l'administration coloniale espagnole (1550-1600)
The 1539 Inquisition and Trial of Don Carlos of Texcoco in Early Mexico
Paper Shields
Crime and Culture in Colonial Mexico
The Cosmic Conquest
Glimpsing Native American Historiography
Kinship and Inheritance among the Sabana de Bogota Chibcha at the Time of Spanish Conquest
Historia de la educación en la época colonial
Testimonios en Triángulo
La dinastía de los Incas, monarquía o diarquía? Argumentos heurísticos a favor de una tesis estructuralista
Cofradías and Cargos
How an Andean "Writing Without Words" Works
Imperial Dilemmas, the Politics of Kinship, and Inca Reconstructions of History
The Aztec Aristocracy in Colonial Mexico
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |