Abstract

PALAMARCZUK, Valeria  and  GRIMOLDI, María Solange. An unpublished manuscript of Rudolf Schreiter in archaeology in Northwestern Argentina. Relations between colecctionism and scientific research in the early twentieth century. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2016, vol.9, n.2, pp.67-80. ISSN 1852-060X.

In 1912 Rudolf Schreiter completed the sale of a collection of archaeological objects from the Calchaquí valleys to the Imperial Royal Natural History Court Museum of Vienna (at present Weltmuseum Wien). The transaction included the sending of a catalog, photographs and a manuscript in German describing the archaeological field work conducted in 1907. The manuscript remained unpublished until today; this essay is an introduction to our Spanish translation of the manuscript. We present an overview of the history of the formation of different collections gathered by Schreiter in the Calchaquí valleys, currently stored in museums in Argentina and Europe. This review allows us to assess the scale of Schreiter transactions and to know the strategies and ties through which he managed the acquisition and sale of large archeological collections over more than three decades.

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