La polémica de las imágenes del indígena hacia la primera mitad del siglo XVI

Abstract

This article reviews the first series made up of the "good savage", the idealizing image proposed by Colón and that later appeared in Anglería, Las Casas and in Franciscans such as Sahagún and Motolirúa; the "bad savage", put into circulation by Colón, received its finished form in the hands of Femández de Oviedo; the "false civilized" 'which was a critical response supported above all by Sepúlveda to the emergence of the "high cultures" of America and the "civilized", which, above all, is a replica of the images that maintained that cultural otherness of the American nations were an indelible sign of barbarism.