ABSTRACT
A critical historical analysis about violence in New Spain and Peru vice-royal chronicles must take into account the cognitive cultural frameworks where these historical sources have been produced. The intertwining of these frameworks fortifies the scrutiny about the violent act that these sources recall, the intrinsic wish of violence of the past they expose and, moreover, the systemic disposition of the violated. This kind of investigation, inspired by the communication theory of speech acts, 1 is a path used in order to articulate the conceptual construction of categories through which an author constructs a past, as well as the social context where he is located. Both are subjects of the censorship carried out by the punitive colonizing practice, especially if they belong the universe of “pueblos conquistados” (Rufer and Añón 2018, 107–131).
