What Is Guaman Poma's Descent In Spanish Colonial America

Consider a group of people that are extremely isolated from everything outside its own cultural sphere. When another outside society breaches this isolated one, there are transformations that begin to happen. The transformations not only occur within the originally isolated society, but also with the encountering society. Each society passes and takes passing cultural aspects that are integrated into their societies. This idea of passing cultural ideas is witnessed with Spanish encounter of the Spanish with the Inca civilizations of Latin America. This cultural integration was a heavy component to how Guaman Poma was able to elevate and argue the status of Inca descendants in Spanish Colonial America, which is clearly exhibited in Guaman Poma’s First New Chronicle. The first task is understanding who Guaman Poma is. Guaman Poma was born in the Spanish colonial system around the 1550’s, and was raised by parents that had years of experience with the colonial ways. Guaman Poma himself never went to Spain, but only knew of the Spanish ways that he was exposed to in the Andean
The corregidores were the ones that held royal jurisdiction and held a substantial amount of authority. Another individual of substantial authority that the natives identify as a serpent is Mama Waco. Mama Waco was a “great deceiver, idolater, and sorceress, who spoke with the demons of hell and who performed ceremonies and sorcery.” The fact that Poma is paralleling corregidores to the one who brought the fall and evil to Inca says that that these Spanish are not better the pagans before them. This example further emphasizes the evils of the Spanish in colonial society, and that the king needs to be made aware of this as well as attempt to fix