The First New Chronicle and Good Government : : On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615 / / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe,
• MitwirkendeR: Coronel-Molina, Serafín M.,; Hamilton, Roland,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hamilton, Roland.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.) :; 8 color photos, 146 b&w photos

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Notes on the Translation and Organization -- The First New Chronicle -- Chapter of the Ag es of the World -- Chapter of the Ag es of the Indians -- The Incas -- The Queens -- The Captains -- The Ladies -- Ordinances of the Inca -- The First General Inspection -- First Chapter of the Years [and] Months of the Incas -- Chapter of the Idols -- Chapter of the Common Sorcerers -- Burials -- The Nuns -- First Chapter of Justice -- First Chapter of the Celebrations -- The Inca -- Administrative Officials -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index of people and places