Abstract

El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes is a book by Alonso Carrió de La Vandera that portrays the social reality of the viceroyalty of Peru at the end of the 18th century from the perspective of a Bourbon official. This text has been analyzed mainly for its literary values and its historical contributions. Here we want to highlight the contributions that an ethnohistorical reading of the text can make to the study of the muleteering practices of the past.