Abstract

IRIANNI, Marcelino. People on the margins of history. Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2015, vol.18. ISSN 1853-4392.

From the beginning, two thousand years ago, historians focused their interest in the upper strata of society, prioritizing the political field. They relied on a few written documents within a universe of oral histories and myths. That elitist look, with the grassroots and the barbarians around them as a backdrop, continued until about a hundred years ago. Then the historians made efforts to integrate into your pages to those who had been on the margins, expanding the focus and adding alternative sources of information. In America, were the last to join the Indians, neglected by his unlettered but also discriminatory criteria that emerged with colonization and dipped the theory from the nineteenth century condition. Ethnohistory, born and mainly in America since the middle of last century, and made great efforts to add fundamental methodological historical protagonists as indigenous. Without them you can not understand some of the processes that lead to the present. These social groups, even at the margins, had their own history. He incorporates missing, as in a large puzzle, to world history, and it was necessary to rethink the parts and the whole.

Keywords : Indigenous; Preliterate societies; Archeology; Trader; Ethnohistory.

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