Marisol de la Cadena is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Her work delves into the profound connections between beings and the world, exploring ecologies of practice across Andean worlds. She focuses on how these relationships shape our understanding of existence and our role within it.
Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices.
A study of how Cuzco's indigenous people have transformed the terms "Indian" and "mestizo" from racial categories to social ones, thus creating a de-stigmatized version of Andean heritage.