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Joanne Rappaport received her PhD in anthropology in 1982 from the
University of Illinois at Urbana. She has taught anthropology at
University of Maryland Baltimore County and at the Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Quito), and most recently, joined
Georgetown University in the departments of Spanish and Latin American
Studies.
She is the author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical
Interpretation in the Colombian Andes (1990) and Cumbe Reborn: An
Andean Ethnography of History (1994).
She is currently working with art
historian Tom Cummins on the relationship between visual and alphabetic
literacy in colonial indigenous society in the northern Andes of Ecuador
and Colombia.
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