book chapter

The first new chronicle and good government

Institut d'ethnologie • Paris • Published In 1936 • Pages:

By: Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe, fl., 1613, Pietschmann, Richard, Rivet, Paul, Monges, Marie Ange, Sidney Muirden.

Abstract

Considerable information pertaining to the history of this source, its author, and the HRAF version will be found in the introduction of the transcription from the original manuscript to modern Spanish by Arthur Posnansky (La Paz: Instituto 'Tihuanacu' de Antropologie, Etnografia y Prehistoria, 1944). The introduction of this transcription and Posnansky's footnotes are included in this source though the original Paris edition was used for the translation. This source is of special value in its presentation of customs and conditions of the Inka empire as viewed by an indigenous author who was not of the Cuzco nobility. He both wrote and drew pictures revealing many facets of Inka traditional history, dress, social and political organization, judicial sanctions, and other customs. There are a number of references to practices of adjoining peoples who became subject to the Inkas in the course of their expansion. The drawings were evidently prepared with the expectation of their use in instructing of informing illiterates, and are uniquely descriptive in supplementing the text. Although the author's command of Spanish and extensive use of native terms cause certain difficulties for the reader, and there is an obvious confusion of Inka and Christian history and mythology, this work offers much valuable data on pre-Spanish Inka culture which is not available in other sources.

HRAF PubDate

2005

Region

South America

Sub Region

Central Andes

Document Type

book chapter

Evaluation

Creator Type

Indigenous Person

Document Rating

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

George R. Bedell ; 1961

Field Date

ca. 1613

Coverage Date

1200-1613

Coverage Place

Peru

Notes

Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

Translation of: [El primer nueva coronica i buen gobierno: Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (codex pTruvien illustré)]

The work was probably completed in 1613 after twenty or thirty years of labor. cf. p. xiv

'Avant-propos' signed: P. Rivet

'Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, codex péruvien illustré

Renseignements sommaires, par Richard Pietschmann': p. [vii]-xxviii

Translated by Mme. Marie Ange Monges from Nachrichten von der Königlichen gesellschaft der wissenschaften zu G÷ttingen

Philologisch-historische klasse. Berlin,1908, p. 637-659

Includes bibliographical references

Translated for the HRAF files by Sidney Muirden in 1961

Omitted from the files: pages 367-1179 of the original, dealing primarily with the Spanish conquest and later colonial history.

LCCN

37013466

LCSH

Incas