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La Indianidad: The Indigenous World Before Latin Americans

La Indianidad: The Indigenous World Before Latin Americans

Horna, Hernán
Rausch, Jane M.

Paperback

South American History

ISBN10: 1558762698
ISBN13: 9781558762695
Publisher: Markus Weiner Publ (Nj)
Published: Oct 1 2001
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

Mayan manuscripts and stone glyphs from pre-Columbian times are among the few historical documents by or about early Native Americans. Many other native artifacts have been destroyed and their memories suppressed.

To arrive at an authentic ethnohistory of Amerindians and to understand the multi-dimensional nature of the ancient indigenous world, historians must rely on the work of archeologists, anthropologists, and linguists, who are constantly announcing new discoveries. They must also reexamine Spanish and Portuguese texts written in the early years of conquest and settlement from an essentially Eurocentric point of view to uncover the Indian voices beneath the surface. New evidence is emerging to challenge old notions of native Americans as noble savages living an an Eden-like paradise, or isolated, primitive people quickly defeated by superior Europeans.

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