By Susan A. Niles
Considers how the Inca thought of background trained their narratives, rituals and structure. utilizing 16th-century chronicles of Inca tradition, criminal files and box research of architectural continues to be, the booklet explores the interaction of oral/written histories with the architectural checklist.
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I, cap. XII; 1947: 473; see alsoCieza parte 11, cap. LXX; 1985:202). Reconciling IncaHistories: W O Rhetorical Strategies While a number of chroniclers acknowledgevariation among Inca histories, they rarelydo more than suggest that there are rival stories in circulation. In two cases, we can discern the writer’s rhetorical strategy and how that strategy influenced the way he contended with rival versions andvariants in the oral tradition. It is u s e l l to consider the accounts of Inca history by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, written around 1572,with that ofJuan de Betanzos, written between 1551and 1557.
I would surmise that there were few Incas left in Cuzco willing or able to prepare cantares that formalized the life of Atahuallpa. In any event, he left no descent G E N R E A N D C O N T E X T I N HISTORICAL NARRATIVES 19 group in Cuzco whose duty would have included preserving his memory. 5 The version of royal history that Betanzos presents glorifies the family of his wife. The story of Yamqui Yupanqui the elder is surprisingly similar to the story told about Amaro Topa Inca by Sarmiento (caps.
We haveseveral references to the attemptby individual rulers to reshape the history of their people. Sarmiento asserts that Inca history was regularized by Pachacuti, who brought expert historians into his presence, had them tell the stories of the past, and thenpainted some of the histories on tablets, placed in the Temple of the Sun, which were then used to transmit the histories of these ayllus (cap. g; 1960:212;Fe de la prouanga; 1960: 279) and which formed the body of knowledge transmitted by certain experts (cap.