LA METAMORFOSIS DE UN INQUISIDOR: EL HUMANISTA DIEGO LÓPEZ DE CORTEGANA (1455 - 1524)

Las sociedades indias, vistas durante mucho tiempo a través del prisma deformante de la literatura y el cine, siguen siendo el mejor ejemplo de la destrucción por parte del Occidente de culturas tradicionales. En lo sucesivo, los estereotipos tienden a desvanecerse a la luz de los trabajos históricos y antropológicos, como los de Philippe Jacquin: la identidad de los indios puede afirmarse con la reapropiación de su historia.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...