Reiner Tom Zuidema (May 24, 1927 – March 2, 2016) was professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He later extended this approach, based on French and Dutch structuralism, to other aspects of Andean civilization, notably kinship, the Inca calendar and Incaic understanding of astronomy.
[1] He had started studying Indonesian social sciences but later switched to anthropology of South America.
[5] In 1964 Zuidema moved his family to Peru and started teaching at San Cristóbal of Huamanga University.
After three years he returned to the United States and started working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.