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Kathryn Burns argues that the archive itself must be historicized. Using the case of colonial Cuzco, she examines the practices that shaped document-making. Notaries were businessmen, selling clients a product that conformed to local "custom" as well as Spanish templates. Clients, for their part, were knowledgeable consumers, with strategies of their own for getting what they wanted. In this inside story of the early modern archive, Burns offers a wealth of possibilities for seeing sources in fresh perspective.
Author: Kathryn Burns
ISBN-10: 0822348683
ISBN-13: 9780822348689
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2010
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.60d
Kathryn Burns is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru, also published by Duke University Press.
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