Atahualpa and the Book
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https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.1988.i184.693Abstract
The encounter of Atahualpa and Pizarro in Cajamarca in 1532, and more specifically the episode which initiated the Spanish attack, the book handed by the Dominican priest Valverde to the Inca, who then let it fall. offer the author an opportunity to make a curious analysis of how a particular situation can lead to different historiographical interpretations. Eye-witnesses, Cieza de León, López de Gómara, Huáman Poma and Garcilaso de la Vega offer a range of possible answers regarding the meaning of that act. Mac Cormack does not lose sight of the context of the relation between dominators and dominated or of the justice of the conquest itself, and concludes that «a historical event and the menos or reasons used to present it in intelligible form are not necessarily the same thing».
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