A Turn to the Vision of the Defeaters

Abstract

Different visions and perspectives exist to study and understand the Conquest of America. Here I propose the recovery of a look against the inevitability of the triumph of the West, the “completeness” of the conquest, the victimization, and defeatism of the indigenous people. It is about rethinking the Conquest as a long-term process and from a critical historical perspective to subvert the social effects. As well as the preponderance of colonial discourses that reduce the