Abstract

DIAZ PERERA, Miguel Ángel. El fundamento de una nación en el sureste Novohispano: A propósito de Votán, sacerdote fundador de Palenque, (1773-1994). LiminaR [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.1, pp.159-178. ISSN 2007-8900.

Based on the disagreements in the discussion on the origin of American man between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the author shows how notions involved were inserted into the creole nationalism of the late eighteenth century, which nourished for obtaining pre-Hispanic objects from antiquarian expeditions, sustained pre-independence historical arguments in the southeast of New Spain. In this context, relevance took Votan, founding priest alleged that despite his forgetfulness as a result of the consolidation of Mexican centralism, from 1994, reappeared to challenge the Mexican state epicentral action. This demonstrates the existence of a correlation between scholarly and political wills that allow us to understand the historical knowledge not as an exercise aseptic, pure and clear, but as the focus of heated disputes, interests contradicted with impact on the happenings of modern Mexico.

Keywords : History; politics; Palenque; Votán; creole nationalism; human origins; migration founding.

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