Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff

dr. Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff
Residence	Bogotá, Colombia
Citizenship	Colombian
Fields	Archaeology & anthropology of the Calima, Guane, Muisca and others
Institutions	Universidad de los Andes
Alma mater	Oxford University
Thesis	Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia (1972)
Spouse	Rudolf Hermann Schrimpff Mampe †
Children	Sebastián Schrimpff
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Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist, professor and writer. Her maiden name is Cardale, de Schrimpff refers to her husband, aerial photographer Rudolf Schrimpff. Rudolf Schrimpff died March 30, 2005 in an aviation accident.

Schrimpff has published many books and articles about the Calima, Muisca,Panche, and other indigenous groups of Colombia, in Spanish and English. Cardale de Schrimpff speaks English, Spanish, French and German.

Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff has worked with other Muisca scholars and archaeologists in Colombia, such as Sylvia Broadbent, Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Ana María Groot, Leonor Herrera and others.

Marianne Cardale obtained her master's degree at Edinburgh University in 1965 and her PhD in 1972 at Oxford University with a thesis named Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia. From 1970 to 1974 Cardale de Schrimpff worked at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.

Cardale de Schrimpff has been active in the establishment of the Gold Museum in Cali, in the region of the Calima. She also co-founded the Pro Calima group on the Calima culture. Part of her work was on the Malagana culture, about pre-Columbian roads, and other aspects of the Calima culture. Schrimpff has written about the Herrera Period, the Muisca people and their salt production in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes and about textiles in different parts of the country.

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