Previous Fora / 2003
Speakers
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Professor Lourdes Arizpe |
| President International Social Science Council (based on web page of International Social Science Council) |
A former Assistant Director General for Culture at UNESCO (1994-1998), she has returned to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she has the positions of professor and researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research. After completing a doctorate in anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she taught at El Colegio de Mexico from 1972 to 1985, after which she directed the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares (1985-1988) and the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropol-gicas at UNAM (1991-1994). Her twelve books include Parentesco y econom'a en una sociedad nahua (1972), Antropolog'a breve de Mexico (1993), The Cultural Dimensions of Global Change: An Anthropological Approach (1995), and Culture and Global Change: Social Perspectives of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest (1995). She has published three books on the internet, including the World Culture Report done at UNESCO. A founding member of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, she also served as President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences from 1988 to 1993. She has served on the Joint Latin American Committee of the Social Science Research Council (1987-1990) and the Executive Committee of the Latin American Studies Association (1994-1996). In addition to being asked to join the editorial boards of seven professional journals based in Colombia, England, Mexico and the United States, her honors also include Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships (1978 and 1982), the medal for distinguished activities in the field of culture from the Ministry of Culture in Pakistan, and membership in the Royal Anthropology Institute in England.
Resources on the Web
International Social Science Council:
http://www.unesco.org/ngo/issc
World Culture Report:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/worldreport/