Los otros inventores de América: las tradiciones históricas amerindias
This article presents a novel polyphonic interpretation of Edmundo O’Gorman’s idea of the invention of the Americas. It proposes that the invention of this New World was not only carried out by Europeans, but also by the Amerindian societies that had to face the process of colonization. Through the...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/63436 |
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| Summary: | This article presents a novel polyphonic interpretation of Edmundo O’Gorman’s idea of the invention of the Americas. It proposes that the invention of this New World was not only carried out by Europeans, but also by the Amerindian societies that had to face the process of colonization. Through the analysis of the historical and cosmological discourses produced by two Indigenous peoples, Tlaxcala in Central Mexico and the Maya of the Yucatan peninsula, the article shows how Indigenous thinkers were able to modify their own cosmographies to incorporate the new realities of the colonial world and also to invent a place for their world within the dominant European cosmography. This new understanding of the indigenous inventions of the Americas allows us to redefine the discussion about the nature of the new continent starting with its irreducible plurality. |
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| ISSN: | 1626-0252 |