Comments on a doctoral dissertation by Uta Kresse Raina

Intellectual Imperialism in the Andes: German Anthropologists and Archaeologists in Peru, 1870–1930. 2007 PhD Dissertation, Department of History, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 236 pp. DAI-AAT 3268194.

Works relating to the intellectual history of archaeology by non-archaeologists often take a while to show up in our disciplinary history literature base. Thus I was glad to learn of this dissertation by Uta Raina, and to find that it was available through inter-library loan as well as by purchase. And I was particularly delighted when in the first few pages I read (p. 25) that she had identified more than ninety German researchers during this sixty-year period (1870–1930) that had been active in the Peruvian Andes doing archaeology and anthropology.