Historical research. Dra. Dunbar Temple 'Institutions'

Abstract

We present a study of the 'Institutions,' a work that Dr. Ella Dunbar Temple prepared when she took up the chair of 'History of Peru' at the National University of San Marcos in Lima in 1958.

We reviewed the two existing texts -notes and printed edition-, and framed it within the topic of the institutions of the Inca Empire, referencing some authors who influenced Professor Dunbar. We also included a brief note on the Quipus and the system of preserving information in the Tahuantinsuyo, which greatly attracted the 16th-century chroniclers.