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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 word-backed by all the power of Castilian enforcement-that 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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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

27 septembre 2010

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822393450

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

INTO THE ARCHIVE

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INTO THE ARCHIVE

WritingandPower

inColonialPeru s

Kathryn Burns

duke university press durham and lond on 2010

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∫2010 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Dante by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Frontispiece: Cuzco volume of sixteenth-century notarial records (protocolo),arc. Bound inside are some two dozenregistros, or notebooks, containing records of clients’ business. Photograph by the author.

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C O N T E N T S

Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.20. . . . . . Of Notaries, Templates, and Truth 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Interests . 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Custom . 4.95. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power in the Archives 5.124. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Archives as Chessboards Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Works Consulted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

I L L U S T R AT I O N S

Figures map1. Map of southern colonial Peru 7 map482. Cuzco

figure91. Guaman Poma depicts an indigenous notary figure2. A choirmaster/schoolmaster, as depicted by Guaman Poma 10 figure3. An anonymous doodler decorates the cover sheet of aregistro deindios16 figure4. Quentin Massys’snPortraitofaMa23 figure5. Title page of Hernando Díaz de Valdepeñas’ssantoumSdea copiosas28 figure6. Title page of Gabriel de Monterroso y Alvarado’sPrati,yaccvili criminal,einstructiondescrivanos30 figure7. Judicial torture in Jean Milles de Souvigny,cimsiirxsairnP persequendi35 figure8. Guaman Poma depicts the imagined dialogue of Inca and Spaniard 43 figure519. The signature of indigenous notary Pedro Quispe figure10. Guaman Poma’s representation of ‘‘the poor Indians of this kingdom’’ 67 figure6911. Anonymous notarial doodles figure7012. Satirical doodles figure7113. Satirical doodle of a notary’s head assistant figure14. Doodle of a heraldic lion peeing a scribal ﬂourish 74

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