María Rostworowski

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María Rostworowski
Born
María Rostworowski Tovar

(1915-08-08)8 August 1915
Barranco, Lima, Peru
Died6 March 2016(2016-03-06) (aged 100)
Lima, Peru
Other namesMaría Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco
OccupationHistorian
Spouse(s)Count Zygmunt Broel-Plater (divorced); 1 child
Alejandro Diez-Canseco Coronel-Zegarra
ChildrenKrystyna Rita Juana María
Parent(s)Jan Jacek Rostworowski and Rita Tovar del Valle

María Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco (8 August 1915 – 6 March 2016) was a Peruvian historian known for her extensive and detailed publications on

Peruvian Ancient Cultures and the Inca Empire
.

Biography

Rostworowski was born in the

Peruvian
political party, during the party's inception.

Rostworowski married her distant cousin, Count Zygmunt Broel-Plater, a member of the

Fernando Belaúnde Terry
designated her as cultural assistant in the Peruvian embassy in Spain.

Rostworowski was a student of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. At the university, two of her teachers were Raúl Porras Barrenechea, who introduced her to historiographical proceedings and to the analysis of historical sources, and the North American anthropologist John Murra, who motivated her to begin studying ethnic history. She also had contact with other professors, such as Julio C. Tello, Luis Valcárcel, and Luis Jaime Cisneros during her time at the university. Accociated with the Institute of Peruvian Studies from its beginning, María Rostworowski edited numerous publications under the Institute's auspices. One of the publications that she edited is called Historia del Tahuantinsuyo, the highest-selling social science journal in all of Peruvian history.

Rostworowski's contributions to

precolumbian societies on the Peruvian coast, a topic which had not been widely studied until then. Other works of hers come from diverse historical topics, ranging from historical gender studies (La mujer en la época prehispánica, 1986) to precolumbian cults and their eventual Christianization
(Pachacamac y el Señor de los Milagros: una trayectoria milenaria, 1992).

In 1979 she became a member of the National Academy of History (Academia Nacional de Historia), and she later became the vice president. Additionally, she was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History (Real Academia de la Historia) and the

Guggenheim foundation, Volkswagen
, Fomciencias, and Concytec.

She was also the director of the National History Museum (Museo Nacional de Historia) from 1975 to 1980. In 1969, she worked for the newspaper Correo, which at that time was directed by

Peruvian
Culture Museum (Museo de la Cultura Peruana). In 1983, she wrote what she considered her most important work: Estructuras andinas del poder: ideología religiosa y política.

Rostworowski served as vice-president of The National Academy of History (Academia Nacional de Historia), as director of National Museum of History from 1975 to 1980, and was a principal resident scholar at the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP) in Lima.[3] She turned 100 in August 2015.[4]

Death

María Rostworowski died on Sunday 6 March 2016, aged 100, between 3:30 and 3:38 in the afternoon.[5]

Books

  • Pachacutec inca Yupanqui (1953)
  • Curacas y sucesiones: costa norte (1961)
  • Los ascendientes de Pumacahua (1963)
  • Etnia y sociedad: costa peruana prehispánica (1977 y 1989)
  • Señoríos indígenas de Lima y Canta (1978)
  • Recursos naturales renovables y pesca: siglos XVI y XVII (1981)
  • Estructuras andinas del poder: ideología religiosa y política (1983)
  • La mujer en la época prehispánica (1986)
  • Entre el mito y la historia: psicoanálisis y pasado andino, con Max Hernández, Moisés Lemlij, Luis Millones y Alberto Péndola (1987)
  • Conflicts over Coca Fields in XVI century Perú (1988)
  • Historia del Tahuantinsuyu (first edition: 1988)...[ 2001].
  • Doña Francisca Pizarro: una ilustre mestiza (1534–1598) (1989)
  • Pachacámac y el Señor de los Milagros: una trayectoria milenaria (1992)
  • Las visitas a Cajamarca. 1571-72/1578.
  • Documentos (1992, 2 volumes, with Pilar Remy)
  • Ensayos de historia andina (1993 y 1998)
  • La mujer en el Perú prehispánico (1995)
  • Kon, el dios volador y el pequeño Naycashca, with illustrations by Claudine Gaime (1995)
  • La muerte del sol y otros cuentos del Antiguo Perú (1996)
  • El origen de los hombres y otros cuentos del Antiguo Perú (1996)
  • María Fernanda Alvarado Ágreda (1996)
  • Pachacútec y la leyenda de los chancas (1997)
  • El señorío de Pachacámac (1999)
  • Historia de los Incas (Lima: Editorial Bruño, 1999)
  • Los Incas (Lima: Fundación Telefónica, 2000) (in CD-ROM).
  • Incas Enciclopedia temática del Perú. El Comercio edition, Lima (2004)
    ISBN 9972-752-01-1
    of the book; 120 thousand copies
  • Obras completas (2005)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "María de los Andes", interview by Nelson Manrique, at Cyberayllu, 1988. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Genealogical connection between Maria Rostworowski and Zygmunt Broel-Plater". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Silencio, la maestra ha muerto: María Rostworowski nos dejó", lamula.pe, 6 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. La República
    (in Spanish). 8 August 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  5. ^ Elcomercio.pe, Redacción (6 March 2016). "Falleció María Rostworowski, destacada historiadora peruana". El Comercio.

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