Valderrama Fernández, Ricardo

LC control no.	n 84155438
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Valderrama Fernández, Ricardo *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Fernández, Ricardo Valderrama Valderrama, Ricardo
Ending date	2020-08-30
Associated country	Peru
Birth date	1945-04-03
Place of birth	Cusco (Peru : Region)
Place of death	Cuzco (Peru)
Field of activity	Quechua Indians--Social conditions
Affiliation	Universidad Nacional de "San Antonio Abad" del Cusco
Profession or occupation	Anthropologists Anthropology teachers College teachers Mayors
Found in	Condori Mamani, G. --De nosotros, los Runas, 1983: t.p. (Ricardo Valderrama Fernández) His Del Tata Mallku a la Mama Pacha, 1988: t.p. (Ricardo Valderrama) The New York Times, Ricardo Valderrama, noted anthropologist and mayor in Peru, dies at 75, September 17, 2020, updated September 21, 2020, viewed online (and a version published in paper version) September 22, 2020 (Ricardo Valderrama spent four decades studying Indigenous life in the Peruvian Andes; his first book, Gregorio Condori Mamani : an autobiography (1977), written, like nearly all his work, with his wife, anthropologist Carmen Escalante, became an instant classic of Andean literature; he and his wife helped shift the field's focus from Indigenous people as a means of understanding the rise of Incan civilization, to considering them on their own terms in the present, as people struggling; he also experimented in film and photography; in 2006 he ran for the [Cusco] City Council to promote culture and the arts; he died on August 30 at a hospital in Cusco, age 75, of Covid-19; he had been in office as mayor of Cusco only since December, and had spent most of his time in office leading the province's response to the new coronavirus; born on April 3, 1945 in the Cusco region; his parents were both Indigenous Quechua speakers; he learned Quechua from his grandmother, spoke it better than his 8 siblings; bachelor's degree 1976, National University of St. Anthony the Abbot in Cusco; became a professor there in 1990)
Associated language	spa que
Invalid LCCN	n 95049711