Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments Various people and institutions made it possible for me to carry out the research for this book and devote the time necessary to write it. A fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania allowed me to pursue my doctoral studies and develop my interest in the topic. The Center for New World Comparative Studies of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, gave me access to its book and document collection in the summer of 1998. I was able to complete the research in Peruvian archives and libraries that serves as the basis for this book and other works that I have published in recent years thanks to Fellowship 6338 of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. I wish to thank the staffs of the research room in the Archivo General de la Nación, of the Sala de Investigaciones in the National Library of Peru, of the Archivo Arzobispal de Lima, and of the Archivo Departamental del Cusco for their professional support. Help from the Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú during the 2001–2 academic year allowed me to reformulate portions of this work. In the United Kingdom, the support and understanding of colleagues and administrators in the history faculty at the University of Cambridge, Newnham College, and the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, were very important during the composition of the final manuscript. I especially wish to thank Chris Bayly, Alison Burgess, Julie Coimbra, Elizabeth Haresnape, John Hatcher, Melissa Lane, David Lehmann, Michael O’Brien, and Megan Vaughan.| ix Sabine MacCormack enthusiastically undertook the task of publishing this manuscript in the series she directs and gave me valuable advice. Barbara Hanrahan, director of the University of Notre Dame Press, has been extremely kind and patient. Two anonymous readers for the Press gave me a wealth of useful suggestions. I am deeply grateful to Rebecca DeBoer and to Ann Aydelotte from the University of Notre Dame Press for their editorial work. I wrote the original version of this book in Spanish, my native language. I wish to thank Anne Pushkal, who translated the first chapter . I also thank Patricia Simonson, who translated chapters 2, 3, and 4, and Michael Kidd, who undertook the translation of the final chapters as well as the introduction and conclusion. Kate Reeves revised and edited the entire manuscript. I owe an enormous debt to Nancy M. Farriss for the privilege of her support, friendship, and wise counsel over more than ten years. Steven Feierman and Ann Farnsworth-Alvear read and critiqued early versions of this work and offered useful advice. In Philadelphia , Catherine Bogosian, Joan Bristol, Shefali Chandra, Luli Feliciano, Laura Matthew, Gene Ogle, Anne Pushkal, and Yanna Yannakakis were enthusiastic listeners and excellent friends. My gratitude goes to the friends and colleagues with whom I share my passion for Peru for their dialogue, help, commentary, and constant support: Susana Aldana, Berta Ares, Betford Betalleluz, Nicanor Domínguez, Juan Carlos Estenssoro, Pedro Guibovich, Marta Irurozqui, César Itier, Natalia Majluf, Cecilia Méndez, Víctor Peralta, Valérie Robin, and Margarita Suárez. In Cuzco, the friendship and support of Donato Amado, Marco Chevarría, Mary Chino, Luis Nieto Degregori, Celia Jaimes, Julia Rodríguez, Miki Suzuki, and Marta Zegarra made my visits and stays in the city and the region pleasant and productive. I regret that several people are no longer here to receive my thanks and see the result of my work. Their presence was very important at decisive stages in my training as a historian, and the pain of their absence has influenced the reflections underlying this book. Guido Delran, founder of the Centro de Estudios Andinos “Bartolom é de las Casas,” gave me the opportunity to carry out research in Cuzco and begin my academic career in Peru. Juan Bautista Lassègue x | Acknowledgments shared his knowledge of Church history and the Cuzco archives in addition to being a close friend. During the years in which I researched and wrote this book, I lost my siblings and my parents. Their deaths made my journey difficult, and as a result of the successive mourning through which I have passed, I have come to a greater understanding of the experience of the men and women about whom I write in this book. I wish to thank Milena Stoynic for helping me to reflect on their...