THE FOUNDING ABYSS OF COLONIAL HISTORY: OR “THE ORIGIN AND PRINCIPLE OF THE NAME OF PERU”.

The name of “Peru” and the entities and beings it names first appeared “in an abyss of history” on “the edge of the world” in the early 1500s. In this essay I ask what hermeneutical truths or meanings the strange event that made the name of Peru both famous and historical holds for—and withholds fro...

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Publicado en:History & Theory Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 44 - 63
Autor principal: THURNER, MARK
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2009
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