Las poblaciones indígenas en la conformación de las naciones y los estados en la América Latina decimonónica

Esta primera monografía de la serie tiene como base el manuscrito número 274 BNC, de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII.

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...

Vallejo Reyna se interna por los laberintos de la tradición sagrada de los tz´utujil, pobladores mayas de Santiago Atitlán en Guatemala, para quienes los nawales son seres sagrados, con poderes milagrosos cuyo origen se remonta a tiempos inmemoriales. El estudio de Vallejo revela aspectos nodales de la identidad maya contemporánea y de la cuestión étnica y nacional guatemaltecas.

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