The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615 (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture (Hardcover))

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One of probably the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was once written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, quite a lot of aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times as much as around 1615 when the manuscript was once finished. Now housed within 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 probably 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 probably the most complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the primary third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The sections included on this volume (pages 1–369 of the manuscript) cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of each and every of the Inca rulers and their wives, in addition to a wealth of details 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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