Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
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About this collection
This collection consists of the research outputs of professor Billie Jean Isbell. Professor Isbell’s research focuses on the Andes, primarily in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho and specifically in the village of Chuschi, Peru and the surrounding region of the River Pampas Valley in the province of Cangallo. The images date from 1967 through 2002.
Historical context
Billie Jean Isbell was a professor emerita of anthropology at Cornell University, having joined the faculty in 1976. In 1978, she published To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village. At Cornell, she served as the director of the Andean Program for the Cornell International Insitute for Food, Agriculture and Development from 1990-2002, and the director of the Latin American Program from 1987-1993 and 2001-2002. She died in June 2021.
Using the collection
This digital collection includes images and audio materials. For more information about this collection, please contact rareref@cornell.edu.
More information
- Collection steward
- Evan Earle, Peter J. Thaler University Archivist
- Metadata creation
- Billie Jean Isbell, Cornell University Library
- Funding
- Faculty Grants for Digital Library Collections: Advancing E-Scholarship, awarded to Billie Jean Isbell in 2004.
- Credits
- This collection overview was last reviewed in 2025.
- Collection sources