Sylvia Marcos
Address / Affiliation
Visiting Professor, Gender in Mesoamerican Religions
School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University
Clairmont, CA
Senior Research Associate
Permanent Seminar on Gender and Anthropology
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico
Email
smarcos@att.net.mx
Areas of Specialization
  • Gender and religions
  • Mesoamerican studies
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Indigenous epistemologies
  • Mesoamerican ethnohistory and ethnography
Areas of Interest
In addition to the above areas of specialization:
  • Subjected knowledges
  • Women and Indigenous epistemologies
  • Gender in Indigenous social movements
Major Relevant Publications
Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos (eds), Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization, Palgrave,N.Y., 2005
Sylvia Marcos (ed), Third Volume of Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Religiones: Religion y Genero, Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2004
Sylvia Marcos (ed), Gender/Bodies/ Religions, IAHR-ALER Publications, Mexico, 2000
Sylvia Marcos and Elio Masferrer (eds), Chiapas el Factor Religioso, Mexico: IMER, 1998
Sylvia Marcos, Taken from the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerica, Leiden, Brill, 2006
Other Information of Interest
Participant in the Consejo Consultivo del Instituto Estatal para les Mujeres, State of Morelos, Mexico, 2002-present (three-year appointment)
First Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas, Fundación Rigoberta Menchú, Oaxaca, Mexico
Universidad Maya, (Indigenous alternative education project) Gender Program, Chicén, Itza, Yucatán
International Advisory Board, Project Evaluations, Mexico/Latin America, Global Fund for Women
President of Human Rights and Indigenous Rights Panel, Women's Parliament, March 8, 2004
Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement, Women's Institute, Morelos, Mexico, March 8, 2003
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