Into the archive : writing and power in colonial Peru / Kathryn Burns.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Burns, Kathryn, 1959-

Series:

• e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Archives--Peru--History.
• Notaries--Peru--History.
• Power (Social sciences)--Peru--History.
• Peru--History--1548-1820--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kathryn Burns shows how the biases and practices of Spanish notaries and their clients in colonial Cuzco shaped official records and, therefore, the archive on which contemporary historians rely.

Contents:

• Of notaries, templates, and truth
• Interests
• Custom
• Power in the archives
• Archives as chessboards.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9786613065742
• 9781283065740
• 1283065746
• 9780822393450
• 082239345X

OCLC:

662619084