Autoridades indígenas en el discurso sahaguntino. Construcción y usos discursivos sobre el Otro

Abstract

This article shall reflect on Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s action understood as a part of a longstanding western trajectory to describe the otherness, a phenomenon which attempted to count with the participation of defeated elites, to eventually showing the Christian superiority. Here we defend the hypothesis that in Sahagún the work on the otherness has been based upon that intellectual exercise to incorporate the Other into the Western scheme as though it was a set of mirrors. The Coloquios y la Historia general de las cosas de las Nueva España has been the foremost sources in this study.

Keywords

 Otherness, Colonial discourse, Discursive action, Franciscans.