Into the Archive

Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

Автор: Kathryn Burns

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Издател: Duke University Press

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Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writin...

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Автор

Kathryn Burns

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2010

страници

264

EAN

9780822348573

Enbook ID

04939264

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

478

Размери

234 x 161 x 23

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Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people's words in official forms and make them legally true. Thus the first thing Columbus did on American shores in October 1492 was have a notary record his claim of territorial possession. It was the written, notarial wordobacked by all the power of Castilian enforcementothat first constituted Spanish American empire. Even so, the Spaniards who invaded America in 1492 were not fond of their notaries, who had a dismal reputation for falsehood and greed. Yet Spaniards could not do without these men. Contemporary scholars also rely on the vast paper trail left by notaries to make sense of the Latin American past. How then to approach the question of notarial truth? Kathryn Burns argues that the archive itself must be historicized. Using the case of colonial Cuzco, she examines the practices that shaped document-making. Notaries were businessmen, selling clients a product that conformed to local "custom" as well as Spanish templates. Clients, for their part, were knowledgeable consumers, with strategies of their own for getting what they wanted. In this inside story of the early modern archive, Burns offers a wealth of possibilities for seeing sources in fresh perspective.

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