Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva Corónica ed. by Rolena Adorno and Ivan Boserup (review)
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala is undoubtedly the best-known author in Andean studies. For some decades, his book Nueva corónica y buen gobierno has been central to understanding the Andean past, given his unique perspective as an indigenous writer. The present work gathers 14 essays about Guaman Poma by scholars from diverse disciplines: history, literature, anthropology, and philology. It is the result of the Second International Guaman PomaConference, held at the Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen, in October 2013. As Rolena Adorno highlights in the introduction, this institution has had a leading role in curating and publicizing the Nueva corónica, from its discovery by Richard Pietschmann in 1908 through the manuscript’s digitization in the 1990s.