Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (March 6, 1912 – May 16, 1994) was an anthropologist, known for his holistic approach and his in-depth fieldwork among tropical rainforest cultures (e.g. Tucano) in Amazonia and also among dozens of indigenous groups in Colombia in the Caribbean Coast (the Kogi Amerindians of the Sierra Nevada), as well as among Pacific Coast, Llanos savannahs, and in the Andean and inter-Andean regions as well as in other areas of Colombia. For nearly six decades he realized ethnographic and anthropological studies, as well as archeological research, and as a scholar was a prolific writer and public figure renown as a staunch defender of indigenous peoples. He died in 1994 in Colombia.
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