Fernando Silva Santisteban [SEP] date of death
Fernando Silva Santisteban
Fernando Silva Santisteban (1929–2006) was a Peruvian historian, anthropologist and professor. He was born in Cajamarca in 1929 and died in Lima on December 16, 2006. He was married to singer, Teresa Guedes, and was the father of the poet, Rocio Silva-Santisteban.
Education and career.
Silva attended school at the San Ramon Sesquicentennial School in Cajamarca (Promoción 1949). His professional training began at the National University of Trujillo, later to transfer to the Faculty of Arts at
Andean Studies in Berkeley, California. The Geographic Society of Lima (La Sociedad Geográfica de Lima) accepted her as an honorary member. She presided over the Peruvian Association of Ethnic History (Asociación Peruana de Etnohistoria), which was founded in Lima in 1979 by Fernando Silva Santisteban. In order to continue her research projects, she received the support of the Wenner-Gren foundation, Ford, the Guggenheim foundation, Volkswagen, Fomciencias, and Concytec.
She was also the director of the National History Museum (Museo Nacional