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Guaman Poma addresses colonial government from a position it subordinates. His imagined dialogue with the king questions who supplies knowledge and who must listen.
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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.