The Pedagogy of the Evangelization, Latinity, and the Construction of Cultural Identities in the Emblematic Politics of Guamán Poma de Ayala
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Department of Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Communication, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
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Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
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Religions 2019, 10(7), 441; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10070441
Received: 16 June 2019 / Accepted: 16 July 2019 / Published: 18 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Pedagogy of Evangelization in the New World (16th and 17th Centuries))
Transculturation processes and the formation of identity are analyzed in this investigation into the emblematic politics of the Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (First new chronicle and good government) of Guamán Poma de Ayala (ca. 1616). Understood as pluricultural acts of discourse between Andean cosmological visions and the new systems of European cultural codification, this study follows the emblematic chronicler from Poma on the subject of colonial education and the Ladino Indian, through structured relations fixed between space, icon, and symbol. The careful iconographic arrangement of the drawings of Guamán are the result of conscient knowledge of the usefulness of the image and its didactic, persuasive, propagandistic, and mnemotechnic potential. Learning the reading and writing of the Castilian language will be presented here as one of the most effective social instruments in the colonial order and in the defense of native Indians before Viceroyal authorities. Mastery of writing sets the foundation for shaping a multiple and transcultural non-exclusive identity, which shows evidence of dialogic and effective communication of a cultural memory, the result of the negotiation of two identities, one from the awareness of the pre-Hispanic past and another orderly realignment in accordance with European cultural patterns.
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Keywords:
pedagogy of evangelization; Latinity; cultural identities; emblematic literature; Guamán Poma de Ayala
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Pérez-González C, Ortega-Sánchez D. The Pedagogy of the Evangelization, Latinity, and the Construction of Cultural Identities in the Emblematic Politics of Guamán Poma de Ayala. Religions. 2019; 10(7):441. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10070441
Chicago/Turabian StylePérez-González, Carlos; Ortega-Sánchez, Delfín. 2019. "The Pedagogy of the Evangelization, Latinity, and the Construction of Cultural Identities in the Emblematic Politics of Guamán Poma de Ayala" Religions 10, no. 7: 441. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10070441
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