Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru by Kathryn Burns

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

Kathryn Burns

264 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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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 Co...

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