Ana María Lorandi

{{Short description|Argentine archaeologist (1936–2017)}}

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| caption = Ana María Lorand in 2016

| birth_name = Ana María Lorandi

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|3|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Cañada de Gómez, Santa Fe Province, Argentina

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|01|30|1936|3|7|df=y}}

| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

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| occupation = Archeologist, historian

| alma_mater = National University of Rosario

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| employer = National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Ana María Lorandi (7 March 1936 – 30 January 2017) was an Argentine archaeologist, historian and scientific researcher who specialised in Andean ethnohistory. Along John Victor Murra she is known for a new radical historiography of the Inca Empire.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3713/371358886002/html/|title=Ana María Lorandi (1936-2017). Hije de la “Pampa Gringa” y de los Andes|last=Río|first=Mercedes del|journal=Diálogo Andino|issue=56|pages=05–07|accessdate=2022-07-17|language=es}}{{Cite journal|url=http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0719-26812017000100005&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es|title=Ana María Lorandi (1936-2017)|last=Zanolli|first=Carlos E.|last2=Zanolli|first2=Carlos E.|year=2017|journal=Diálogo Andino|issue=52|pages=5–5|accessdate=2022-07-18|issn=0719-2681|doi=10.4067/S0719-26812017000100005}} Besides her Andean studies she also contributed to rearch on the rural areas of southeastern of South America, that is Paraguay, the Argentine Littoral, the Pampas and Patagonia.

In June 1973 Lorandi participated in the Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino held in northern Chile.{{Cite journal |title=Ciencia en los extremos: Una mirada presente al Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino (1973) |journal=Chungará |last=Chiappe |first=Carlos |url=https://www.chungara.cl/Vols/2024/56-1/5601_02_CM_Chiappe.pdf|year=2024 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=9-22 |trans-title=Science at the Extremes : A current glance at the First Congress of the Andean Man (1973) |language=es}}