Abstract
On commencera donc par inviter l’historien a voir, dans l’Amerique indienne, un Moyen âge auquel aurait manque sa Rome: masse confuse, elle-meme issue d’un vieux syncretisme dont la texture fut sans doute tres lâche, et au sien de laquelle subsisterent ca et la, pendant plusieurs siecles, des foyers de haute civilisation et des peuples barbares, des tendances centralisatrices et des forces de morcellement. From the start, then, I ask the historian to look upon Indian America as a kind of Middle Ages which lacked a Rome: a confused mass that emerged from a long-established, doubtless very loosely textured syncretism, which for many centuries had contained at one and the same time centers of advanced civilization and savage peoples, centralizing tendencies and disruptive forces.
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