La dimensión indígena del salvaje europeo

Abstract

[EN] The Mexican anthropologist Roger Bartra in his works makes an analysis of the evolution of the myth of European savage, rooted in the classical antiquity to evolve and adapt to the mentality of the people who were populating Europe until its expansion to the world in the late s. XV, extrapolating that mythology to the construction around the inhabitants of the New World. This mythological dimension merges with the role that the indian was acquired during the consolidation of European hegemony around the idea of modernity and capitalism, in the first as otherness and in the second as an inhabitant of the exploited periphery.

Both dimension, studied and criticized by contemporary Latin American thought. This paper puts aim to reflect on the complexity of the discursive formation around the image of the Indian using these three keystones. What role did mythology and European fantasy in conjunction with aspects more typically associated with the European rationalism, as are capitalism and Modernity, in creating the Indian? Explore, then, the meeting between European savage and Modernity