Las justificaciones de la guerra de Conquista a través de la mitología del Otro. Las dicotomías del Buen Salvaje y el Bárbaro en crónicas de los siglos XVI y XVII

• Autores: Salvador Leetoy
• Localización: Redes.com : revista de estudios para el desarrollo social de la Comunicación, ISSN 1696-2079, Nº. 5, 2009, págs. 145-158
• Idioma: español
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  • This essay seeks to explore a survey of chronicles written by Ne w Spain conquistadores and theologians during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.

    It is stated that old western my- thologies were imported to understand the human condition of in digenous people in America in order to adapt them via a moral system of justified domination. Th us, it is considered that the mythological discourses of the Other were the underpinnings of ideological excuses of either a genocidal physical violence or an ethnocidal epistemic viol ence against indigenous people in America.