[PDF.75lf] Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

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 | #1235153 in Books |  Duke Univ Pr |  2010-09-27 |  2010-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.66 x6.13l,.79 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The history of history ... making|By M. Borden|Extremely readable account that opens up insights into the relationship between records and power. Turns out history isn't always written by the winners. Most often, it's written -- and shaped -- by their notaries and clerks.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent book on the value| |

“Those who read this small but wise volume will doubtless enhance both their understanding of colonial record making, and also their need to treat the documentary record with caution, always contextualizing the making of the records themselves. The

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 con...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru   |  Kathryn Burns. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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