Historia, escritura e identidad

Excerpt from An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography History without Geography is incomplete and unsatisfactory. The duty of the historian is, not only to record the events of his narrative, with their causes and consequences, but to sketch the attending scenes and circumstances, so as to present a clear and living picture of tho whole. For this purpose Geography comes to the aid of History, to delineate the scenery of the historical narrative, to describe the city or country where the event recorded transpired, to depict the mountain, plain, or valley, the ocean, sea, or...

AQUEL GENERAL al que inmortalizaría en cierto modo A. Dumas no se recató a la hora de contar sus hazañas o su capacidad de abnegación. Suficientemente lúcido para no olvidar su condición de invasor, no podía por menos de reconocer que «la mayoría de los habitantes» se alegraría de su marcha. Pero a él parecía con¬vencerle la estima de las minorías: las autoridades civiles y eclesiásticas que por la tarde del día 31 le habían dado muestras de afecto. Al alba del día siguiente, esta contraposición de masas y élites se desvanece cuando afirma que «algunos miles de...

Vallejo Reyna se interna por los laberintos de la tradición sagrada de los tz´utujil, pobladores mayas de Santiago Atitlán en Guatemala, para quienes los nawales son seres sagrados, con poderes milagrosos cuyo origen se remonta a tiempos inmemoriales. El estudio de Vallejo revela aspectos nodales de la identidad maya contemporánea y de la cuestión étnica y nacional guatemaltecas.

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