Sabine Hyland

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Full Name	Sabine Hyland
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Aug 26, 1964(1964-08-26)
Age	60
Birthplace	Cumberland
Country	United States
Horoscope	Virgo

Sabine Hyland Biography

Sabine Hyland is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on August 26, 1964 in Cumberland, United States.

Sabine Hyland (born August 26, 1964) is an American anthropologist and ethnohistorian working in the Andes. She is currently Professor of World Christianity at the University of St Andrews. She is best known for her work studying khipus and hybrid khipu-alphabetic texts in the Central Andes and is credited with the first potential phonetic decipherment of an element of a khipu. She has also written extensively about the interaction between Spanish missionaries and the Inca in colonial Peru, focusing on language, religion and missionary culture, as well as the history of the Chanka people.

Hyland received her first degree in Anthropology from Cornell in 1986, graduating magna cum laude with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa. She also studied Quechua at Cornell. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University in 1994, where she was supervised by Richard Burger and also studied under Mike Coe and John Middleton. Her doctoral thesis on the subject of Jesuit Blas Valera was later reworked into her first monograph, The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. (2003).

Sabine Hyland Net Worth

Sabine Hyland is one of the richest Anthropologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sabine Hyland 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sabine Hyland (née Campbell) was born in Maryland in 1964. She grew up in Dryden, New York, near Cornell University where her father, Joseph Kearns Campbell, was a Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Her mother Sigrid is a German immigrant to the United States. Sabine spent some of her formative years abroad when her father was working at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and the International Potato Center in Lima. The year she spent living in Lima as a teenager sparked her interest in studying Peru.

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Hyland’s research has appeared in media outlets around the world, such as the BBC World Service, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Slate. In 2011, National Geographic filmed a documentary about her research on khipu boards as part of their series Ancient X-Files.

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Hyland’s research about khipus has featured in documentaries made by National Geographic and Discovery Channel. She has also served as a consultant for television and appeared on History Channel’s series Mankind: The Story of All of Us. In 2018 she was interviewed on the BBC World Service. She has won several grants from institutions such as the Leverhulme Trust and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she was made a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2019 after receiving a grant for her project “Hidden Texts of the Andes: Deciphering the Cord Writing of Peru”. The work of Hyland and other researchers such as Gary Urton to decipher the khipus has been compared to a search for an Inca “Rosetta Stone” and seeks to reframe the question of whether indigenous American societies other than the Mayans had writing systems, and what it means to have a “three-dimensional writing system” recorded through textile.

Top Facts about Sabine Hyland

1. Sabine Hyland is an American anthropologist.
2. She specializes in Andean cultures and history.
3. Hyland has conducted extensive fieldwork in Peru.
4. Her research focuses on indigenous religion and ritual practices.
5. She is a professor at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
6. Hyland has published numerous articles and books on Andean culture.
7. She received her PhD from Yale University in 1998.
8. Hyland has been awarded several grants for her research.
9. She is a member of the Society for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association.
10. Hyland’s work sheds light on pre-Columbian societies in South America.