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Tales of Ancestry, Inheritance, and Possession: New Documentary Evidence on Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the First General Land Inspection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2023

José Carlos de la Puente Luna*
Affiliation:
Texas State University San Marcos, Texas jd65@txstate.edu Translated by Caroline Garriott

Extract

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's 1616 El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno stands as the author's staggering attempt to obtain by privilege that which he could not secure through justice: status as a native lord and title to lands. Indeed, the last 20 years of the native chronicler's life as we know it, roughly from 1595 to 1615, are marked by the usual milestones of an ascending clerical career in the service of provincial priests, inspectors, and administrators from the south central Andean region stretching between Jauja and Huamanga.1

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Academy of American Franciscan History

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