El pensamiento político de los pueblos originarios de América sobre el poder

Abstract

The work analyses —from the disciplinary field of the history of Latin American ideas and through reports of chroniclers, priests and officials— the notion that more developed pre-Columbian peoples had on the power of their institutions, especially the political ones. Many of these descriptions and valuations were mediated by the Eurocentric prism of the conquerors. However, some historians objectively valued the original specificity of these institutions of power and the respective political ideas of those cultures. From the conquest were produced some valuable analysis of the magnitude and meaning of the power of the institutions of those civilizations. Thus began a process of “transculturación” which leads to our days.