Valentina Vapnarsky

Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes

Valentina Vapnarsky is research director at the CNRS and holds the chair of linguistic anthropology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. She is currently president of the Société des Américanistes. Trained in both linguistics and anthropology, she has worked with the Itza Maya in Guatemala and the Yucatec Maya in Mexico, and is coeditor of Living Ruins and Temporalities in Mesoamerican Ritual Practices.