Research Catalog

Title

Pastoral Quechua : the history of Christian translation in colonial Peru, 1550-1650 / Alan Durston.

Author

Durston, Alan, 1970-

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2007.

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Details

Description

xiii, 395 pages : map; 23 cm.

Summary

Pastoral Quechua explores the story of how the Spanish priests and missionaries of the Catholic church in post-conquest Peru systematically attempted to "incarnate" Christianity in Quechua, a large family of languages and dialects spoken by the dense Andes populations once united under the Inca empire. By codifying (and imposing) a single written standard, based on a variety of Quechua spoken in the former Inca capital of Cuzco, and through their translations of devotional, catechetical, and liturgical texts for everyday use in parishes, the missionary translators were on the front lines of Spanish colonialism in the Andes. The Christian pastoral texts in Quechua are important witnesses to colonial interactions and power relations. Durston examines the broad historical contexts of Christian writing in Quechua; the role that Andean religious images and motifs were given by the Spanish translators in creating a syncretic Christian-Andean iconography of God, Christ, and Mary; the colonial linguistic ideologies and policies in play; and the mechanisms of control of the subjugated population that can be found in the performance practices of Christian liturgy, the organization of the texts, and even in certain aspects of grammar.--

Series Statement

History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds.

Subject

• Catholic Church > Missions > Peru
• Église catholique > Missions > Pérou
• Catholic Church
• 1548 - 1820
• Geschichte 1550-1650
• Quechua language > Peru > History
• Quechua language > Peru > Religious aspects
• Indians of South America Missions Peru
• Quechua (Langue) > Pérou > Histoire
• Quechua (Langue) > Pérou > Aspect religieux
• 18.91 American Indian languages
• Indians of South America > Missions
• Language and languages > Political aspects
• Missions
• Quechua language
• Mission
• Übersetzung
• Quechua (taal)
• Christelijke literatuur
• Quechua (språk) > historia > Peru
• Quechua (språk) > religiösa aspekter > Peru
• Peru > Languages > Political aspects
• Peru > History > 1548-1820
• Pérou > Langues > Aspect politique
• Pérou > Histoire > 1548-1820
• Peru
• Quechua-Sprache
• Catholic Church Missions Peru
• Peru Languages Political aspects
• Quechua language Peru History
• Quechua language Peru Religious aspects

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-380) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Background -- Part I: History -- Diversity and experimentation : 1550s and 60s -- Reform and standardization : 1570s and 80s -- The questione della lingua and the politics of vernacular competence (1570s-1640s) -- The heyday of pastoral Quechua (1590s-1640s) -- Part II: Texts -- Pastoral Quechua linguistics -- Text, genre, and poetics -- God, Christ, and Mary in the Andes -- Performance and contextualization.

ISBN

• 9780268025915
• 0268025916

LCCN

2007025517

OCLC

• 145939072
• SCSB-11382972

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library