Nosotros los vencidos (We the defeated people)
Journal
Journal of Communication
ISSN
0021-9916
1460-2466
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
Type
Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
Abstract
In 1959, Mexican anthropologist and historian Miguel Leon-Portilla first published The Broken Spears: An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, a work featuring several unpublished Aztec sources from the Conquest of the Mexican territory and its aftermath (Leon-Portilla, 1962). Two of the many fascinating things in that book stand out; the first is the first-hand account of how the Mexica experienced the crumbling of the only world they knew. But the second is riveting and intricate and refers to the fact that it took more than 400 years to add the voice of the defeated to the accounts of those historical events.1 Adding to the shock, let's not forget that such 400 years of overlooking the Aztec's version was done precisely by a cultural milieu that, in many ways, prided itself on being their inheritors. Broken Spears’ original title in Spanish is “La vision de los vencidos,” that is, “The vision of the defeated,” and in the face of an event that accomplished the obliteration of a political entity, it is not hard to perceive on which side the defeated stood. ©The author ©Oxford University Press.
License
Acceso Restringido
How to cite
Navarro, M. (2024). Nosotros los vencidos (We the defeated people). In Journal of Communication (Vol. 74, Issue 6, pp. 505–508). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqae027