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- Title
The lenguas and the quipocamayocs: communication mediators in spaces of colonial legality (Peru, sixteenth century).
- Authors
DE LA CUBA, OFELIA HUAMANCHUMO
- Abstract
In the early American colonial years the legal system had used instruments for the consolidation of power through practices that, in the case of Peru in the sixteenth century, required the intervention of lenguas or interpreters, and quipocamayocs or experts in the reading of quipus. These social actors gradually established their own spaces of legality, supported by strategic mechanisms that would guarantee loyalty, efficiency, and, above all, credibility in their practices, to thereby legitimate their craft.
- Subjects
PERU; PERUVIAN history; JUSTICE administration; INDIGENOUS peoples of Peru; TRANSLATORS; QUIPU; POWER (Social sciences); EVANGELISTIC work -- History; SIXTEENTH century; HISTORY; INDIGENOUS peoples of South America -- History
- Publication
Signos Históricos, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 33, p8
- ISSN
1665-4420
- Publication type
Article