Abstract

SEGUNDO GUZMAN, Miguel Ángel. Real Memories or Christianized Memories?: Corporeal Technologies of Contention in the VI^th Book of the Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España, XVI^th century. Hist. graf [online]. 2014, n.43, pp.167-195. ISSN 1405-0927.

The sixth book of the Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España has been interpreted through a founder prejudice: in it, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún studied prehispanic wisdom and moral, and rescued it for posterity. The logical consequence is that the text became a living encyclopedia of Mexica-Knowledge. This article aims to show and theme the intellectual traditions that allowed the registering of their discourse. A shredding of the sixth book through the great paradigms of Christian imagery about the body: Christian self-control, the wickedness of the world, etc. The work must be understood as an edifying text that aspired to become the new Indian Memory, expurgated and Christianized in the process of the invention of America.

Keywords : Body; Sahagún; evangelization; huehuehtlahtolli; Conquest.