Donyale Luna
Reblogged velvetbrown
David Fuertes, left, executive director of Kahua Pa’a Mua, with Joël Tan from the Ohana Agricultural Resilience initiative for families in the region.
PHOTO BY VANESSA DE GUIA
Source: kahuapaamua.org
MIGUEL ASTOR-AGUILERA (PhD Anthropology - University at Albany/SUNY) is an Arizona State University Associate Professor whose scholarship concentrates on religious studies, sociocultural anthropology, ethnography, material culture, and archaeology focusing on Indigenous epistemologies within Latin America. He specializes in Mesoamerican cosmovisions and their historical traditions, that is, pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary. His work specializes on Maya ritual specialists in the Yucatán peninsula and their cosmologies as related to their environment. Astor-Aguilera currently teaches courses at Arizona State University in Religious Studies, within the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, that are cross-listed with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Anthropology) and the School of Transborder Studies (Latin American Studies). He has been Faculty Head (Chair) of Religious Studies, Director of Graduate Studies for Religious Studies, and Associate Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at ASU.