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R. Tom Zuidema is a Dutch anthropologist and ethnohistorian who has made significant contributions to the study of the Inca Empire and the Andean region. He was born in the Caribbean island of Curaçao, and studied at the University of Amsterdam, where he received his PhD in 1956. Zuidema is best known for his work on the Inca Empire, particularly his book The Ceque System of Cuzco: The Social Organization of the Capital of the Inca (1964). He has also written extensively on the history and culture of the Andean region, including his book The Inca and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (1977). Zuidema has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the Order of the Dutch Lion in 1988, the Order of the Golden Ark in 1989, and the Order of the White Elephant in 1990. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. As of 2021, R. Tom Zuidema is 89 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm) and a weight of 75 kg (165 lbs). He has not revealed his dating history. He is of Dutch nationality and belongs to the White ethnic group. R. Tom Zuidema has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his successful career as an anthropologist and ethnohistorian.

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Born 24 May, 1927
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1977

In 1977 Zuidema became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 1993.

1957

Zuidema was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands. He obtained a PhD in his home country and later moved to the United States. He had started studying Indonesian social sciences but later switched to anthropology of South America. The main reason for this was that Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands, and he could not work in the country anymore. Zuidema studied Spanish in Madrid and moved to Peru in 1957. He published a study on the Ceque [es] (lines) of Cusco in 1962. In 1964 Zuidema moved his family to Peru and started teaching at San Cristóbal of Huamanga University. After three years he returned to the United States and started working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1993 he retired.

1927

Reiner Tom Zuidema (May 24, 1927 – March 2, 2016) was professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is well known for his seminal contributions on Inca social and political organization. His early work consisted of a structural analysis of the ceque system. He later extended this approach, based on French and Dutch structuralism, to other aspects of Andean civilization, notably kinship, the Inca calendar and Incaic understanding of astronomy.