Inés de Castro (ethnologist)

Inés de Castro (born September 1, 1968 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentinian - German ethnologist and ancient American.

In 2001 she published her dissertation in ancient American studies at the University of Bonn under the title The history of the so-called Pacificos del Sur during the Caste War of Yucatán: 1851 - 1895. An ethnohistorical investigation .

From 2006 she was curator of the ethnological collection of the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim . She has been the director of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart since 2010 . Her research focuses on Mesoamerican archeology and ethnology.

During her tenure as museum director, she was responsible for several well-known exhibitions such as “World Views” (2011), “ Maori ” (2012) “Discovering Korea ! - Treasures from German Museums "(2013)," Maya Code "(2013)," Inka - Kings of the Andes "(2014)," Myanmar - The Golden Land "(2014/2015)," The World of Shadow Theater "( 2015/2016), " Hawai'i - Royal Islands in the Pacific" (2017/2018) or " Aztecs " (2019/2020).

In 2018, the provenance research expert turned down the position of head of collections at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, which is currently being set up.

Fonts (selection)

Aztecs . Edited by Doris Kurella, Martin Berger and Ines de Castro in cooperation with the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH), Mexico with forewords by Winfried Kretschmann, Alejandra Frausto Guerrero and Ines de Castro ISBN 978-3-7774-3482-7
The world of shadow theater
Uta Werlich, Inés de Castro and Toko Shimomura (eds.): Oishi! Food in japan . Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2016 ISBN 978-3-89790-468-2

Web links

Literature by and about Inés de Castro in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ Adrienne Braun: “The culture was systematically destroyed”. Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 11, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 .
↑ Nicola Kuhn: You would have been the right one. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 15, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 .
↑ Lucas Wiegelmann: Museum director de Castro justifies the rejection of the Humboldt Forum. In: Welt Online . February 14, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Castro, Inés de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine-German archaeologist, ethnologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH	1st September 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires , Argentina

[1] Adrienne Braun: “The culture was systematically destroyed”. Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 11, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 .

[2] Nicola Kuhn: You would have been the right one. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 15, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 .

[3] Lucas Wiegelmann: Museum director de Castro justifies the rejection of the Humboldt Forum. In: Welt Online . February 14, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 .