Los Orígenes de la Antropología en España: Madrid, centro receptor de las corrientes de innovación europeas

Abstract

The knowledge of man in the Spain of the Enlightment was conditioned by prejudices and intolerance, was subjected to the verdict of science and religion. The anatomical studies had an outstanding role being converted in a new scientific front; however, to the appointment didn't miss erudites and propagandists like Feijoo or Hervás and Panduro, who dedicated their thinkings to the analysis of the human being. The anthropological frame would remain defined whether considered the publication and diffusion that the work of Buffon had, in spite of the inquisitorial censorship.