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Notes Introduction and Background 1. Martín Lienhard, La voz y su huella: escritura y conflicto étnico-social en América Latina 1492–1988, 3rd rev. ed. (Lima: Editorial Horizonte, 1992), 45. 2. Ibid., 46. 3. Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality , and Colonization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 77. 4. Lienhard, La voz y su huella, 47. 5. Ibid., 46. 6. Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton, eds., Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002). 7. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance, 77. 8. Lienhard, La voz y su huella, 31. 9. Ibid., 55. 10. Miguel León-Portilla, ed., The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, rev. ed., trans. Angel María Garibay and Lysander Kemp (Boston: Beacon, 1992). 11. Beatriz Pastor, The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492–1589, trans. Lydia Longstreth Hunt (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992). Spanish edition, Discursos narrativos de la conquista: Mitificación y emergencia, rev. ed. (Hanover, N.H.: Ediciones del Norte, 1988). 12. Dennis Tedlock, Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, With Commentary Based on the Ancient Knowledge of the Modern Quiche Maya, rev. ed. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 28. 13. Ibid., 29–30. 14. Ibid., 30. 1. Narrative Accounts of the Encounter and Conquest 1. Margarita Zamora, Reading Columbus (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 39. 2. Ibid., 72. 3. Pastor, The Armature of Conquest, 28. 4. Ibid., 36. 5. Zamora,“‘IfCohonaboalearnstospeak...’:AmerindianVoiceintheDiscourse of Discovery,” Colonial Latin American Review 8, no. 2 (1999): 192–193. 6. Ibid., 191–205. 7. Pastor, The Armature of Conquest, 44. 8. Christopher Columbus, The Log of Christopher Columbus, trans. Robert H. Fuson (Southampton, Eng.: Ashford Press, 1987), 77. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid., 79. 11. Ibid., 107. 12. Ibid., 120. 13. Lienhard, La voz y su huella, 49. 14. Zamora, “‘If Cohonaboa learns to speak . . . ,’” 92–93. 15. Pastor, The Armature of Conquest, 46, typifies the modern reader’s horror at Columbus’s use of head to state the number of women captives. 16. Sandra Messinger Cypess, La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991). 17. Hernán Cortés, Letters from Mexico, ed. and trans. Anthony Padgen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), 73. 18. Ibid., 74. 19. Ibid., 51–52. 20. Ibid., 73. 21. Ibid., 84. 22. Ibid., 85–86. 23. Ibid., 86–87. 24. Ibid., 88. 25. Ibid., 166. 26. Ibid., 132. 27. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, in León-Portilla, ed., The Broken Spears, 90. To read this passage in context, see Alva Ixtlilxochitl, “Relación de venida de los españoles y principio de la ley evangélica,” in Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, ed. Angel María Garibay K. (Mexico City: Porrúa, 1956), 1:194. 28. Códice Ramírez (anonymous), in Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Crónica mexicana (Mexico City: Porrúa, 1980), 144–145. For an English translation of the critical passage in this account, see Pastor, The Armature of Conquest, 71. 29. Bernardino de Sahagún, Conquest of New Spain, 1585 Revision, trans. Howard F. Cline and S. L. Cline (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989), 84. This volume later seems to be correcting the Aztec account by including a speech by Cortés to the Aztec nobles in which he justifies the Spanish troops’ actions , denies Spanish responsibility for Moctezuma’s death, and states, “You threw stones at him in such a fashion that you wounded him; he died from the stoning he received from you” (107). 30. Ibid., 85. 208 notes to pages 18 –30 [3.239.119.159] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:04 GMT) 31. Pastor, The Armature of Conquest, 68. 32. Ibid., 69. 33. Ibid. 34. Zamora, “‘If Cohonaboa learns to speak . . . ,’” 93. 35. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. Frances M. López-Morillas, ed. Enrique Pupo-Walker (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 14. 36. Ibid., 7. 37. Ibid., 42. 38. Ibid., 49. 39. Ibid. 40. Ibid., 72. 41. Ibid., 110. 42. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, “Preface by the Author,” in his Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, trans. A. P. Maudslay (New York: Grove Press, 1958), xxxiii. 43. Joaquín Ramírez Cabañas, “Introducción...