Seduction and conquest

A reading of Guamán Poma

Authors

  • Alejandra Osorio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v22i35/36.896

Keywords:

mujer andina, virginidad, Guaman Poma de Ayala, roles sociales

Abstract

Virginity —and its loss— by Andean women constitutes one of the central themes of the Letter that Guamán Poma left for the King of Spain, Philip III, entitled New Chronicle and Good Government, for the year 1615. For Guamán Poma the virginity embodied in the acllacuna was synonymous with order and greatness, while the violation of this virginity is presented as the central paradigm of the social catastrophe —"the world turned upside down"— that the conquest brought to the Andean peoples.

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Published

1990-12-09

How to Cite

Seduction and conquest: A reading of Guamán Poma. (1990). Allpanchis, 22(35/36), 293-327. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v22i35/36.896