Andean Past Volume 8 Article 13 2007 Bringing Ethnography Home: Knut Hjalmar Stolpe's Works in Peru (1884) Ellen F. Steinberg
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[email protected]. BRINGING ETHNOGRAPHY HOME: KNUT HJALMAR STOLPE’S WORK IN PERU (1884) Ellen FitzSimmons Steinberg Jack H. Prost University of Illinois at Chicago INTRODUCTION Stübel. Their intent was to document the tombs before the Necropolis was totally destroyed. The Ancón, on Peru’s central coast, is one of the results of their 1875 excavation were originally most explored, excavated, and plundered sites published between 1880 and 1887 in 15 volumes in that country. Located approximately 32 km titled Das Todtenfeld von Ancon in Peru, repub- north of Lima, the small fishing village has been lished in English as The Necropolis of Ancon in a seaside resort for more than one hundred years Peru . The next large scientific excavation at (Figure 1). Its real fame does not reside in its the site was performed by George Amos Dorsey sandy beaches but rather in its huge graveyard.