A native of Paris, Marguerite Gritli Pfyffer has first studied and graduated in sociology and archaeology before investing herself in the field of cultural anthropology as a freelance researcher. Also a professional handweaver, she has focused her interest on textiles, more specifically on the weavings of the Andes, a region that most attracted her from her childhood. She conducted extensive field and museum researches on ethnographic and archaeological textiles in Peru (1981), Ecuador (1991, in view of her Dissertation in Cultural Anthropology), and Chile (2000).
In 1996-1997 she rambled throughout the Andean countries, from the Argentinean Patagonia in the South to Colombia in the North through Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. She concentrated her research on ikat with the aim of bearing witness in a book of the quality and diversity the Andean weavers display in their ikat textiles, a rich yet mostly ignored cultural heritage.
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Marguerite Gritli Pfyffer
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