Abstract This article analyzes narrations of exchanges between the sentient landscape and humans in the Huarochirí Manuscript. To this end, this article develops the notion of a “poetics of exchange”—referring to the way that exchanges are given meaning through parallel structures both in narrative and practice. This approach liberates the manuscript’s narrations from colonial inheritance by recentering the sentient landscape as a social and economic figure, rather than only religious, and by expanding the scope of exchange to the nonhuman.
Angelica Serna Jeri (Sun,) studied this question.