The life and writings of Julio C. Tello : America's first indigenous archaeologist /

The life and writings of Julio C. Tello : America's first indigenous archaeologist /

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Imprint:Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Tello, Julio C. -- (Julio César), -- 1880-1947.
Tello, Julio C. -- (Julio César), -- 1880-1947
Indians of South America -- Peru -- Antiquities.
Archaeologists -- Peru -- Biography.
Antiquities.
Archaeologists.
Indians of South America -- Antiquities.
Peru -- Antiquities.
Peru.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282002
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Other authors / contributors:Burger, Richard L., editor.
ISBN:9781587298332
1587298333
9781587297830
1587297833
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Life and writings of Julio C. Tello. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009 9781587297830

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