África y la antropología Española: La aportación del Instituto de Estudios Africanos

Abstract

The author discusses the research in anthropology that Spain's Institute of African Studies (IDEA) promoted over more than three decades, approximately from 1940 through 1970. Although its resources were limited, the Institute sponsored in those years a number of research projects that reveal the extent to which antrhopology was used as an instrument of government policy towards the indigenous peoples of Africa under Spanish rule.