Residence Bogotá, Colombia Alma mater University of Oxford | Citizenship Colombian Institution University of Los Andes | |
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Fields Archaeology & anthropology of the Calima, Guane, Muisca and others Institutions Universidad de los Andes Thesis Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia (1972) Spouse Rudolf Hermann Schrimpff Mampe † People also search for Leonor Herrera, Marie Claude Morand, Theres Gähwiler-Walder, Sonia Archila | ||
Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist, professor and writer. Her maiden name is Cardale, de Schrimpff refers to her husband, aerial photographer Rudolf Schrimpff. Rudolf Schrimpff died March 30, 2005 in an aviation accident.
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Schrimpff has published many books and articles about the Calima, Muisca, Panche, and other indigenous groups of Colombia, in Spanish and English. Cardale de Schrimpff speaks English, Spanish, French and German.
Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff has worked with other Muisca scholars and archaeologists in Colombia, such as Sylvia Broadbent, Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Ana María Groot, Leonor Herrera and others.
Biography
Marianne Cardale obtained her master's degree at Edinburgh University in 1965 and her PhD in 1972 at Oxford University with a thesis named Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia. From 1970 to 1974 Cardale de Schrimpff worked at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.
Cardale de Schrimpff has been active in the establishment of the Gold Museum in Cali, in the region of the Calima. She also co-founded the Pro Calima group on the Calima culture. Part of her work was on the Malagana culture, about pre-Columbian roads, and other aspects of the Calima culture. Schrimpff has written about the Herrera Period, the Muisca people and their salt production in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes and about textiles in different parts of the country.
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