The Huarochirí manuscript
Subtitle: a testament of ancient and Colonial Andean religion
By: translation from the Quechua by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste ; annotations and introductory essay by Frank Salomon ; transcription by George L. Urioste.
Contributors: Salomon, Frank.; Urioste, Jorge.; Avila, Francisco de, ca. 1573-1647.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Quechua Indians -- Religion; Incas -- Religion; Quechua language -- Texts
Description: This work represents the most fulsome and developed narrative available to us of how local people in a provincial setting in the Inca Empire conceived of their society and its past . . . This book will stand for some time as the definitive transcription and English translation of a seminal document in Andean cultural history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index.
English and Quechua version of the Manuscrito quechua de Huarochirí, Colonial era narratives, compiled by Francisco de Avila ca. 1598, now held at the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid as part of Mss. group 3,169.