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The life and writings of Julio C. Tello : America's first indigenous archaeologist / edited by Richard L. Burger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Peru--Antiquities.
- Indians of South America.
- Archaeologists--Peru--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Peru--Antiquities.
- Peru.
- Tello, Julio C. (Julio César), 1880-1947.
- Tello, Julio C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The father of Peruvian archaeology, Julio Tello was the most distinguished Native American scholar ever to focus on archaeology. A Quechua speaker born in a small highland village in 1880, Tello did the impossible: he received a medical degree and 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 thus makes available for the first time a broad sampling of Tello's writings as well as complementary e
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Richard L. Burger
- Biographical essays. Julio C. Tello : an account of his rise to prominence in Peruvian archaeology / by Richard E. Daggett
- The international relevance of Julio C. Tello / by John V. Murra
- The intellectual legacy of Julio C. Tello / by Richard L. Burger
- Selected writings by Julio C. Tello. The defense of the archaeological heritage
- The museum of Peruvian anthropology
- Collision of two civilizations
- Prehistoric trephining among the Yauyos of Peru
- The discovery of the Chavin culture in Peru
- The feline god and its transformations in Chavin art
- The remains of three different pre-Columbian cultures have been found on the Paracas Peninsula
- A modeled clay scene in ancient Peruvian art
- The ruins of Wari
- Andean civilization : some problems of Peruvian archaeology
- The empire of the Incas
- Bibliography. An annotated bibliography of Julio C. Tello / by Richard E. Daggett.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587298332
- 1587298333
- OCLC:
- 503291383
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