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Into the archive : writing and power in colonial Peru

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.
Print Book, English, 2010
Duke University Press, Durham [NC], 2010
History
xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780822348689, 9780822348573, 0822348578, 0822348683
503827826
Of notaries, templates, and truth
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Power in the archives
Archives as chessboards