#  Re-Collecting the Andean Dead: American Anthropology’s Peruvian Foundations at Harvard, 1863–1926 

 



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 **February 6, 2024** 

 05:15PM - 06:45PM EST 

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 **CGIS South, S-050**  



 

 



 

 Speaker: **Dr. Christopher Heaney**, Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Penn State. Author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu (2010).

 Moderated by: **Harvard Andean Working Group**

 By 1873, seven years after the founding of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, over 400 of the 684 skulls in its collection were from the Andes. Thus began a specialization that linked Harvard to Peru, which one Andean archaeologist—Julio César Tello (Harvard AM, 1912), “the Boas of Peru”—used to point anthropology to a more complicated end. This entangled history of Peruvian science and Americanist anthropology reveals how Indigenous actors have redirected their study, a debt to recognize as American institutions account for their role in the hemispheric disinterment, excavation, and display of Indigenous kin.

 Presented in collaboration with the [Harvard University Department of History](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/), the [Harvard Department of Anthropology](/), and the [Harvard History of Science Department's Early Sciences Working Group](https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/research/eswg).

 *Contact information:* Manny Medrano <mmedrano@g.harvard.edu>



 

 



 

 

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