想象异邦:加斯帕尔·德·卡瓦哈尔与亚马孙河的发现  

Imagine the Foreign Country:Gaspar de Carvajal and the Discovery of the Amazon River

作　　者：宁锐 Ning Rui(History College,Nankai University,Tianjin City,300350)

机构地区：[1]南开大学历史学院,天津300350

出　　处：《黄河科技学院学报》2021年第4期65-70,共6页Journal of Huanghe S&T College

基　　金：国家民委民族研究后期资助项目(2019-GMH-022)。

摘　　要：1542年,西班牙修士加斯帕尔·德·卡瓦哈尔在南美探险的过程中,认为队伍到达了传说中亚马孙国的领地,并据此写下《奥雷利亚纳河的发现》一书。卡瓦哈尔所描绘的“亚马孙国”与西方经典文献中的“亚马孙国”在地理特征上具有高度的相似性,这为前者的真实存在提供了学理逻辑上的支撑。在此基础上,其观点很快得到欧洲知识界的认同,“亚马孙”随之成为这条南美大河的正式名称。后世学界关于“卡瓦哈尔发现亚马孙河”的表述,其实是一种欧洲中心主义解释历史事件的典型案例。In 1542,in his expedition of the South America,Spanish friar Gaspar de Carvajal believed that his team had reached the fabled territory of Amazon country and wrote the book Discovery of the Orellana River.The“Amazon country”described by Carvajal had the high similarity in geographic feature with the“Amazon country”in western classic literatures,which provided the theoretical and logical support for the real existence of the former.On the basis,his idea was quickly approved by the European intellectual circles,and“Amazon”became the official name of the great river in South America.The statement that“Amazon River was discovered by Carvajal”in academic circle in later generations is actually a typical case of explain historical events with Eurocentrism.

关 键 词：卡瓦哈尔 亚马孙河 地理发现 欧洲中心主义 

分 类 号：K107[历史地理—历史学]