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Arts and Cultures of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes
A guide to selected overviews and primary source codices and chronicles
Guaman Poma
- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615/1616)This manuscript is available online at the National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library. The website combines a digital facsimile of the manuscript with a meticulous transcription of the text in Spanish and the native language Quechua. Free-text search in the text is possible. Further, the edition is supplied with introductions and bibliographies. Finally, a number of documents are published which shed light on the work of Guaman Poma, his age, and the later reception of his work.
- Primer nueva coronica i buen gobierno / Nueva crónica y buen gobierno byCall Number: F3429 .G8 19873 volumes. An important 17th century manuscript by a native Andean, written for the King of Spain. See also the digitized online version listed above.
The First New Chronicle and Good Government by Call Number: F3429.G8 G82513 2009Abridged version in 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. (The original manuscript contains 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings.)
Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru by Call Number: F3430.6.G8 A63 2000Available in print and as an e-book
Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva Corónica by Call Number: F3429 .U65 2015This volume brings together a range of scholars to explore the countless avenues of inquiry that emerge from Poma's work, including Andean institutions and ecology, Inca governance, Spanish conquest-era history, the relationship of the manuscript to Fray Martin de Muruas chronicles, and much more.
Guaman Poma de Ayala: The Colonial Art of an Andean Author by Call Number: NC218.G82 G825 1992
