archaeological and historical evocation has been forever and universally tampering. Ideologues and political essayists of the most diverse 'fronts' are devoted to this task yet. This is not to denigrate nor worship the ideological orientation of parties in particular, much less to deny its historical presence, what you want is to highlight the will of its theoretical frame to distort historical archaeological elevate propaganda purposes and to impose the political ideology of their choice.
historical material distortions are particularly apparent when political scientists make-up of past research release 'tests' historical sites.
political scientist who manipulates the past and propagate adulterated, act according to what he describes as 'engagement', which is nothing else than the total subordination to any particular ideological guideline. For this reason, and to some extent even when using methods and techniques of past research, and even display label historian or an archaeologist, he will prevail in its 'commitment' favor.
The proselytizing efforts of the professional distorting the past is not only directed to the majority. Young professionals and even students, receive special 'treatment' propaganda, in order to gain their 'commitment' and turn in new generations of historic fabric subtly manipulated. A fallacy, introduced between elements' easy to recruit "and accepted as' compelling ', it is absolutely impossible in any degree approaching the past free of prejudice.
The "social activist", when assuming a historian or an archaeologist, he distorts the past to make a lever to impose their dogmas or 'engagement' party politics corrupts the historical and archaeological field from the point of view of professional research .
The historical record usually appears full of tampering aimed at shoring 'worthy causes'. For example, in previous centuries, during Peruvian colonial stage, we find 'historians' entrenched in support of the thesis of the legitimacy of the English conquest of the Inca Empire, especially among the cadres of writers 'Toledo'.
Another example is the story of Manco Capac, who portrays him as a nearly omnipotent being, with divine substance, nothing less than the son of the Sun and sent for him and of his race, alone, govern the Andes. At the time this version was not a 'myth' but a 'true', propagated "as an article of faith" among the people according to ancient writers refer.
valuation judgments aside, the story of Vichama not going to be, in substance, rather than a accommodated to alleged hoax propaganda historic fabric. According to this 'tradition' pre-Inca, the sun settled over the world dropping three eggs, one gold, one silver and copper last. Of gold came the nobles, the women of their silver, and copper, "the common people or the forced laborers and their wives." Drawing on this dogma, presented as 'historic', explained the status of the individual and justified wield the 'nobility' privileges, all conditioned from birth itself and by divine ...
For the foregoing, the researchers believe that the past should challenge the presence of any 'compromise' conscious: root out the religious, nationalist, or from the desire for a valuable "active instrument of social control", to use the terminology often used by political scientists of this in Mexico and Peru.
A trigger tried to avoid prejudices and ideological supporters in the investigation of the past, does not, however, to undertake research so simplistic: only describing objects or arranging them chronologically and stratigraphically. Scholars of the past and warned of the importance of approaching an "inside story", "institutional history" and the acquisition of "historical phenomena." This long-standing concern renamed reappears today to nurture a new twist, with the name of "cultural process."
Published in the newspaper "El Comercio", March 24, 1987 - Peru
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