:People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru
2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 114; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/ahr.114.1.187
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies in Latin America
ResumoA research adventure of many years, following many twists and turns, has led to a fine book by the historical team of Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook. Readers get a glimpse of their adventure that is, if anything, too brief. The book follows the authors' appealingly idiosyncratic microhistory of the life of the Spanish notable Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa who settled in the southern Andean city of Arequipa, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance (1991). As such, it is the second, and this time more ethnohistorical, act in a projected Colca Valley trilogy. The Cooks note that a third study will treat the extraordinary and relatively little-known Franciscan evangelizer Luis Jerónimo de Oré (1554–1630). With so much behind and surrounding it, this book reads as one possible foreground in a vast historical tableau that has been painted as the Cooks have followed their lines of data over many years. Indeed, also informing Good Faith and this book are Noble David Cook's studies of demography and imperial administration of the Colca region and the Andes more generally, not to mention pioneering spadework on Oré.
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