Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52495#.VJog_cCAM4 Author(s) Alejandro Vera Affiliation(s) Music Institute, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile . ABSTRACT During the past century, Edmundo O’Gorman, Tzvetan Todorov, Enrique Dussel and other scholars pointed out the Eurocentric perspective implied in traditional narratives about the discovery of America, most of which intended to confirm Europe as the center of world history and culture. At the same time, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hayden White and others argued for the mythical character of history. According to them, even though historians attempted to assemble documentary evidence obje...
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