Abstract

NADALI, Débora Betrisey. History, anthropology and spanish empire in the museum of america (1940-1965). Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2015, n.22, pp.91-111. ISSN 1900-5407.  https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda22.2015.05.

Professional and scientific activity regarding the “History of Spain in America” during the Franco dictatorship were both carried out in oblivion of the existence of a colonial past understood as a process of domination that determined the effective appropriation of the material culture of former Spanish colonies in the Americas and their subsequent preservation and exhibition in the mother country’s most important museums. This article analyzes how the Museum of America (1941) crystalized a sense of mutual belonging between Latin America and Spain, with which historians and anthropologists would dialogue for a long time, providing concrete evidence of its existence through the exhibition of material objects originating in a supposedly “harmonious mixture” of “natives” and “Spaniards,” but which ignores the conflictive dimension of the inter-ethnic relations established between them.

Keywords : Museum of America; empire; cultural history; anthropology; racial mixing.

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