The Malecus against Christopher Columbus: anachronism or retraditionalization

 

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Auteur: Sánchez Avendaño, Carlos
Formaat: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publicatiedatum:2020
Omschrijving:In this article, two texts from Malecu oral tradition related to the contact and confrontation of this Costa Rican indigenous people with the Spanish conquerors led by Christopher Columbus are commented. The first text seems to be a reformulation of a story from the second half of the XIX century in which the Malecu were chased by rubber makers of Hispanic origin who invaded their territory. The second text is very probably constructed from information recently acquired concerning current indigenous peoples, but it contains traces of possible former oral traditions. In both cases, information from different historic periods are incorporated in old narrative outlines, resulting, therefore, in an anachronistic one, from a Hispanic historiographic perspective. Our proposal, however, is that this is actually due to a process of retraditionalization.  
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Instelling:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Taal:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/42917
Online toegang:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/42917
Keyword:Oral tradition
Malecu
retraditionalization
tradición oral
malecu
retradicionalización