Lourdes Arizpe Explained

Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser
Birth Date:4 October 1945
Birth Place:Mexico City
Alma Mater:University of Geneva
Occupation:Professor of humanities and anthropology
Employer:National Autonomous University of Mexico
Honours:Guggenheim Fellowship

María de Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser (b. 1945, Mexico), habitually cited as Lourdes Arizpe, is a professor in anthropology.[1] In 1964, she obtained a Certificate in French Studies from the University of Geneva;[2] in 1965, she studied history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She obtained a license in ethnology in 1985 from the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico.[3] She obtained adoctorate in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the same year. In 2010, she would receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Lourdes is Chair of Anthropology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has been director of the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares and secretary of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Between 1994 and 1998, she was Adjunct Director of UNESCO in Culture, president of the World Congress on the Status of the Artist, and president of the Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden in 1998. Lourdes was also a member and secretary general of the Rio Conference, president of the International Social Science Council, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the International Science Council. She presided over the Board of Directors of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva.

Lourdes has published in various anthropological fields, including indigenous cultures, migration studies, women's studies, cultural sustainability and social sustainability, and intangible cultural heritage.[4]

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  1. Web site: Torreón . El Siglo de . 2023-10-27 . Marta Lamas y Ana Sofía Rodríguez reúnen textos feministas de los setenta . 2024-03-13 . www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx . es.
  2. Web site: Speakers on the conference The Power of Culture: Lourdes Azripe . https://web.archive.org/web/20170811103752/http://www.powerofculture.nl/uk/archive/amsterdam/arizpe1.html . 11 August 2017 . 13 March 2024 . The Power of Culture.
  3. Web site: MARÍA DE LOURDES ARIZPE SCHLOSSER . 13 March 2024 . Buholegal.
  4. Book: Arizpe, Lourdes . Lourdes Arizpe: A Mexican Pioneer in Anthropology . 2014 . Springer International Publishing . 978-3-319-01895-9 . SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice . 10 . Cham . en . 10.1007/978-3-319-01896-6.
  5. [Laura Poy Solano|Poy Solano, L.]