April 1, 2009
An Anthropologist and Former First Lady of Peru Talks About the Machu Picchu Dispute
In the long-running dispute between Yale University and the government of Peru over pre-Columbian artifacts from Machu Picchu, Eliane C. Karp-Toledo is a pivotal figure. Ms. Karp-Toledo is an anthropologist who also happens to be a former first lady of Peru.
Ms. Karp-Toledo's husband, Alejandro Toledo, led the country from 2001 to 2006. During his tenure, Ms. Karp-Toledo made it a personal mission to recover thousands of objects from Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca site that was
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