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A counter-archive challenges an authorized account through other testimony and forms of address. Guaman Poma’s work raises this possibility without speaking for every Indigenous people.
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Guided course · Module 8 · Lesson 46
Who is recognized as fully human?
At Valladolid, Sepúlveda’s justifications for conquest met Las Casas’s replies. Writing later in Peru, Guaman Poma challenges the terms of such debates by asking who may instruct a colonial ruler.