Аннотация:Common language space and cultural and historical tradition are often essential for scientific contacts, and especially in social sciences and humanities. Connections and mutual impact of Anglo-Saxon social/cultural anthropologists, German-speaking ethnologists, etc. are well known. At the same time, the importance of representatives of ethno-anthropology of South European (in particular Iberian) countries for the science of Latin America is not so noticeable and unambiguous. The paper will consider several typical cases of contacts and mutual influence of scientists from Southern Europe and their Latin American colleagues as a way of analysing different models of interaction.