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The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged (Paperback, Abridged edition): Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged (Paperback, Abridged edition)
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala; Edited by David Frye
R572 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R47 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The First New Chronicle and Good Government - On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615 (Paperback): Felipe Guaman... The First New Chronicle and Good Government - On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615 (Paperback)
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala; Contributions by Roland Hamilton
R1,057 R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Save R67 (6%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and colonial Peruvian material culture ever done. Working from the original manuscript and consulting with fellow Quechua- and Spanish-language experts, Roland Hamilton here provides the most complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the first third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The sections included in this volume (pages 1-369 of the manuscript) cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of each of the Inca rulers and their wives, as well as a wealth of information about ordinances, age grades, the calendar, idols, sorcerers, burials, punishments, jails, songs, palaces, roads, storage houses, and government officials. One hundred forty-six of Guaman Poma's detailed illustrations amplify the text.

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