R. Tom Zuidema, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

R. Tom Zuidema

Dutch-American Anthropologist

Date of Birth: 24-May-1927

Place of Birth: Haarlem, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 02-Mar-2016

Profession: anthropologist

Nationality: United States, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.