Juan Javier Rivera Andia

Juan Javier Rivera Andía is Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at the Department of Anthropology of America of the University of Bonn and Lecturer in the Catholic University of Peru. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and has been a visiting scholar in the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme (Paris), the University of Leiden, The University of Leuven and The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies.

His research examines rituals and oral tradition among indigenous groups of the Andes of South America, particularly Quechua-speaking people of Central and Northern Peruvian highlands.