Director of the MA programs in Anthropology and Visual Anthropology PUCP.
He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.
His research has been centered on indigenous Quechua practices of relatedness with the landscape, pilgrimage, and devotional dance. Additionally, he has investigated the dynamics between mining projects and rural communities, rural evangelical conversion, and the indigenization of politics in the Peruvian highlands. At present, he collaborates with researchers from the University of Michigan, exploring explanatory models across language, generation, and gender within two Quechua communities. With researchers from the University of Gothenburg, he participates in an interdisciplinary project aimed at proposing a novel model of the relations between climate change and migration.
He is the author of Lugares Parientes. Comida, cohabitación y mundos andinos (Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2019) and Dinámica Social y Minería. Familias pastoras de puna y la presencia del Proyecto Antamina (1997-2002) (IEP, 2008). He has published articles in Anthropological Quarterly, Journal of Material Culture, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Signs and Society, among others journals.
