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2015-07-15T18:45:36.000Z
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Video Title:
Inka Road Symposium 05 - Introductory Remarks
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This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian's landmark exhibition, The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire, with a fascinating look at the material, political, economic, and religious structures that integrated more than one hundred Native nations and millions of people in the powerful Andean Empire known as the Tawantinsuyu. In this section, Introductory Remarks are offered by Ramiro Matos, Exhibition Lead Curator, National Museum of the American Indian and José Barreiro, Exhibition Co-curator and Symposium Moderator, National Museum of the American Indian. Ramiro Matos (Quechua), lead curator for The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian, holds a doctorate in archaeology and ethnology from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. A leading archaeologist of Andean cultures, Matos has served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas; University of California, Los Angeles; George Mason University; University of Maryland at College Park; University of Bonn; and University of Copenhagen. An emeritus professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, he has received post-doctoral and research grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, Dumbarton Oaks, the National Geographic Society, and the Mellon Foundation. He is the author of numerous articles and books. José Barreiro (Taíno), PhD, is the assistant director for culture and history research and the director of the Office for Latin America at the National Museum of the American Indian. Author of several books, Barreiro’s research focuses on indigeneity revitalization processes and self-determined community development. Barreiro was active in foundational Native American journalism and publishing in the 1970s, and was an early organizer in the founding conferences of American Indigenous peoples’ dialogue at the United Nations. He is co-curator of The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian. The symposium was recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on June 25-26, 2015.
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4 min 49 sec
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Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
