Dr. Hortensia Caballero-Arias
 

Hortensia Caballero-Arias BA in Anthropology, Magister Scientiarum in Venezuelan History, Ph.D in Anthropology (University of Arizona). She is Associate Researcher at the Anthropology Center of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). Her main research areas have been political and historical anthropology, post development studies, politics of identity, multiculturalism, land demarcation and indigenous rights, and indigenous food systems. Her ethnographic and applied work has been among Amazonian indigenous peoples, in particular the Yanomami communities in the Upper Orinoco, Venezuela, and more recently with indigenous communities in the Loreto region, Peru.  Her book Desencuentros y Encuentros en el Alto Orinoco. Incursiones en territorio Yanomami, Siglos XVIII-XIX (2014), received several national awards. She has been appointed as member of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage of Unesco, member of the Advisory Council of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and member of editorial board of several Latin American journals.