sense of the term, that is owed to them within Colombian society. I think that the country must highlight the indigenous legacy and guarantee fully the survival of the contemporary ethnic groups. I think that the county should be proud to be mestizo. I do not think that it is possible to advance towards the future without building upon the knowledge of the proper millenarian history, nor overlook what occurred to the indigenous peoples nor the black populations (Afrodescendants) during the Conquest and the Colonies, and also during the Republic and to this day. These are, in sum, some of the ideas that have guided me through almost half a century. They have given sense to my life." Bibliography This list is a selection. People of Aritama () Land of the Elder Brothers () Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes () Rainforest Shamans: Essays on the Tukano Indians of the Northwest Amazon () Yurupari: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth () The Forest Within: The World-view of the Tukano Amazonian Indians () Indians of Colombia: Experience and Cognition () The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs Among the Indians of Colombia () Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians () Colombia (Ancient Peoples and Places) See also List of Muisca scholars Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff References External links Bibliography Reichel-Domatoff - Banco de la República 1912 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Austrian people Austrian anthropologists Colombian anthropologists Colombian people of Austrian descent Scientists from Salzburg Naturalized citizens of Colombia Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences TWAS fellows Muisca scholars 20th-century anthropologists