Etno-antropologia spaniolă în epoca franchistă
Spanish Ethno-anthropology in Franco’s Time

Summary/Abstract: The anthropological dimension of the Spanish Catholic missionaries in the recently conquered America has been improperly valued, as the ethnographic information has been, resulting from the administrative issues that arose with the appropriation of the conquered territories. This resulted in two different views of indigenism, presented in the polemic between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in Junta de Valladolid, on the legitimacy that the conquest of the West Indies gives or not to the Spanish Crown any right to oppress the natives. This is considered to be one of the most curious events in the history of the Western World.

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