Academic study of the indigenous elites of the colonial Andes has grown enormously over the past three decades, producing a wealth of articles, monographs, and new editions of colonial era sources. As these have been issued by presses and in journals in the Andes, North America, and Europe, keeping up with this scholarly outpouring has proved quite difficult, and Tarragó’s annotated bibliography of works that relate to kurakas (native Andean lords) is a boon to all who wish to familiarize themselves with this topic. The annotations are concise and useful, and the authorial indexing of the work makes it very easy to use. The divisions — including those separating out works on relations to the Catholic Church, and those on literature and the arts — help to group works on related topics (if at the cost, for example, of dividing Carolyn Dean’s wonderful corpus between the two sections).
Ultimately, such...
