The Life and Writings of Julio C. Tello - America's First Indigenous Archaeologist

Informationen zum Autor Richard Burger is the Charles J. MacCurdy professor of anthropology at Yale University as well as the chairman of Yale's Archaeological Studies Council! a curator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History! and the president of the Institute of Andean Research. Specializing in the Central Andes! he has carried out research in Peru for more than three decades. Klappentext A Quechua speaker born in 1880, Julio Tello convinced the Peruvian government to send him to Harvard and European universities to master archaeology and anthropology. He then returned home to shape modern Peruvian archaeology and the institutions through which it was carried out. This volume makes available a broad sampling of Tello's writings. Zusammenfassung A Quechua speaker born in 1880! Julio Tello convinced the Peruvian government to send him to Harvard and European universities to master archaeology and anthropology. He then returned home to shape modern Peruvian archaeology and the institutions through which it was carried out. This volume makes available a broad sampling of Tello's writings.

Product details

• Authors: Richard L. (EDT) Burger
• Assisted by: Richard L. Burger (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2009
• EAN: 9781587297830
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-783-0
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous