Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: a look from anthropology

Abstract

It is very likely that the destruction of Mexico Tenochtitlán in just under two years has injected confidence into the conquerors, who almost immediately sought new paths to fulfill their inordinate ambition to obtain wealth. What would be your surprise, when you found that to the north, there were other nations that they never managed to completely dominate, since there were ethnic groups that fiercely resisted them. In the very early dates of the Hispanic occupation, Álvar Núñez
Cabeza de Vaca travels part of that northern territory and later narrates his life experience, when confronting some ethnic groups now extinct, and for that reason, the rescue of the inherent traits of their cultures gain interest, in order to build the knowledge of these human groups. It is the claim of this document. The starting methodology, more than ethnographic, is historical, ananalysis and interpretation of the