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, Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Transmission of messages
- Normal garb
- Special garments
- Weapons
- Occupational specialization
- Decorative art
- Age stratification
- Classes
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Advisers to the chief executive
- Deliberative councils
- Sanctions
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Military organization
- Uniform and accouterment
- Mythology
- Revelation and divination
- Organized ceremonial
- Ordering of time
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inka
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- George R. Bedell ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1613
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-1613
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru
- NotesAdditional 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
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 37013466
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Incas