The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged (Hackett Classics) - Hardcover

Guaman Poma De Ayala, Felipe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872208427 ISBN 13: 9780872208421

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

David Frye's skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed between 1600-1616) offers an unprecedented glimpse into pre-colonial Inca society and culture, the Spanish conquest of Peru (1532-1572), and life under the corrupt Spanish colonial administration. An Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background and discusses the author's literary and linguistic innovations. Maps, a glossary of terms, and seventy-five of Guaman Poma's ink drawings are also included.

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David Frye is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

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David Frye's skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed between 1600 and 1616) offers an unprecedented glimpse into pre-colonial Inca society and culture, the Spanish conquest of Peru (1532-1572), and life under the corrupt Spanish colonial administration. An Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background and discusses the author's literary and linguistic innovations. A map, a glossary of terms, and seventy-five of Guaman Poma's ink drawings are also included.

"Generations of scholars have grappled with the challenge of interpreting the person and project of the native Andean chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This abridged English translation of Guaman Poma's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno represents at least two accomplishments. First, it brings this person and project to many readers for the first time. And, second, the words allow for new encounters with the possibilities in this text. These words have a piercing directness that cannot be denied, and they will jar even seasoned scholars, who thought they knew Guaman Poma. Frye has made judicious choices about inclusion, he has consulted widely, he has not shied away from the transformations that were part of being authentically native Andean in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and he has wisely refused to fill the telling silences left by the author himself. Most significantly of all, for students and teachers, is that -- in as much as it is possible -- he has allowed Felipe Guaman Poma to speak for himself."

--Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto

"This edition of Guaman Poma, with its helpful notes and section introductions, makes a work of central importance for Latin American history, anthropology and literature accessible to students and the general public. David Frye has smoothed out the syntax of this difficult text enough to make it readable for such an audience without losing its seventeenth-century style. By leaving some Quechua words and phrases along with their translations, moreover, he has retained much of the feel of a colonial chronicle at the intersection of two cultures."

--Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota

"Frye's Introduction to Guaman Poma . . . reads beautifully, is well thought-out, well-organized, and accessible to the reader . . . a fine model of the genre."

--Rolena Adorno, Yale University

David Frye is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872208427
• ISBN 13: 9780872208421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384