The western component

A new reading of the New Chronicle and Good Government of Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

Authors

  • Claudia Guarisco Canseco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v29i49.689

Keywords:

Guaman Poma de Ayala

Abstract

The analysis that will appear in the following pages is situated in the western component that feeds -alongside the properly Andean cultural referent- the social representation of the Nueva corónica y Buen Gobierno by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala. Poma de Ayala was a ladino Indian who lived in the viceroyalty of Peru, between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th. From a double perspective -indigenous and Spanish- he produced a speech addressed to Felipe III, where he gave an account of the chaos that colonization had produced in the viceroyalty. Through the story about a world that "is upside down", Poma presents a rich information not only of his immediate reality but also of his ideas about society. What I am looking for here, specifically, is to reveal what there is of the European mentality in the way in which Poma contemplates, values ​​and proposes to modify his environment.

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Published

1997-06-23

How to Cite

The western component: A new reading of the New Chronicle and Good Government of Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala. (1997). Allpanchis, 29(49), 11-32. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v29i49.689