Gertrude Blom
Anthropologist, Deceased Person
1901 – 1993
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Who was Gertrude Blom?
Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom was a Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer who spent five decades chronicling the Mayan cultures of Chiapas, Mexico, particularly the culture of the Lacandon Maya. In later life, she also became an environmental activist. Blom's former home Casa Na Bolom is a research and cultural center devoted to the protection and preservation of the Lacandon Maya and La Selva Lacandona rain forest.
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- Born
- Jul 7, 1901
Wimmis - Nationality
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 23, 1993
San Cristóbal de las Casas
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on July 23, 2013
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