Contra los lugares comunes

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Michel de Montaigne afirmaba que «un homme honnête, c’est un homme mêlé». Entre la fórmula del filósofo y las realidades de la sociedad colonial media, sin embargo, un abismo. La presente obra, que habla del encuentro de los Mundos, de la formación de los grupos coloniales y de la circulación de los libros, revela que las situaciones de movilidad entremezclan las identidades hasta el punto de engendrar la sospecha. Tanto los indios, al entrar en contacto con los españoles, como los mestizos, como los europeos emigrados, se convierten, en mayor o menor medida, en «hombres...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

De los toltecas ancestrales hasta los aztecas, la mayoría de los historiadores dejaban casi en blanco cinco largos siglos (del VIII al XIII) que poco a poco empiezan a ser ocupados por la hegemonía de Culhuacán, sitio al pie del Cerro de la Estrella, en el valle de México. Las excavaciones realizadas por la autora en aquel lugar entre 1958 y 1962 llenan ese hiato e iluminan el papel central de la cultura culhua. Más de cien páginas de ilustraciones justifican el texto fundamental de Laurette Séjourné.