Yolotl González

She holds a master's degree in anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History, a doctorate in anthropology and postgraduate studies from the University of Delhi, India. Since 2015 she has been an emeritus researcher at the Directorate of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

She was executive secretary of the School of Anthropology of the Universidad Iberoamericana, and director of the Center for Asian Studies of the same, she was curator of the Asian section of the National Museum of Cultures, executive secretary of the Center for Oriental Studies of the UNAM, director of the Department of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of INAH and director of the Museum of El Carmen of INAH. She is currently a full time researcher at the Ethnology and Social Anthropology Department of INAH.

President of the Mexican Society for the Study of Religions. She was vice-president of the International Association for the History of Religions of which she is currently a member of the Honorary Life Council, president of the Organizing Committee of the International Congress for the History of Religions in Mexico City in 1995, and member of the Advisory Council of the Latin American Association for the Study of Asia and Africa.

She has taught "Myth and Religion" at the Universidad Iberoamericana, "Cultural Anthropology of Asia" at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, "Ethnohistory of Mesoamerica" at the ENAH. Since 1998 to date she has been teaching "Introduction to the Cultures of Asia" at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.