Ana Pérez

She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). She is a full-time tenured researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. She is a member of the SNI, with level II. Her work covers topics such as migration, identity, representations on poverty and peasantry; she is a specialist in the Huasteca and one of her recent projects is “Perceptions and representations on the magical towns of Mexico: Izamal (Yucatan), Bacalar (QR), and Xilitla (SLP)”.

Among her publications, we can highlight the following: ntre montañas y cafetales. Luchas agrarias en el norte de Chiapas (1988); Kikapúes: los que andan por la tierra. El proceso de proletarización y la migración laboral del grupo de Coahuila (1999); Antropología sin fronteras: Robert Redfield, vol. I y II (2002); Etnias y lenguaje de poder (2016).

Among her publications, we can highlight the following: “Entre montañas y cafetales. Luchas agrarias en el norte de Chiapas” (1988); “Kikapúes: los que andan por la tierra”. “El proceso de proletarización y la migración laboral del grupo de Coahuila” (1999); “Antropología sin fronteras: Robert Redfield, vol. I y II “(2002); “Etnias y lenguaje de poder“(2016). She participated in the Fondecyt-Chile project: Cotidianidad, complejidad, imaginario. Aproximaciones teóricas para la construcción de una hermenéutica del espacio entendida como Hermenéutica Dialógica Territorial, and she is responsible for the Mexico-United States project, Antropología de la memoria: Robert Redfield a 45 años de Chan Kom del Fideicomiso para la Cultura México- Estados Unidos. She is a lecturer at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (FFyL), and has taught courses at the ENAH, and at the universities of Salamanca, Spain; Los Lagos, Chile, and Warsaw, Poland. She has been president of the Latin American Association of Anthropology (2004-2008), vice-president of the College of Ethnologists and Social Anthropologists (2009-2010), member of the Judging Commission of the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology and, recently, she was coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Mesoamerican Studies from November 2016 to March 2020, all at UNAM. She received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz recognition and the assignment of the Institutional Chair of the Joaquín Meade Anthropological Studies Program of the Colegio de San Luis Potosí (2013). She was designated director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (IIA) for the 2020-2024 term.