Luis Reyes Escate

Luis Reyes, Peruvian social anthropologist, assistant professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM). He obtained his doctorate at the National Museum of Brazil of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (MN/UFRJ). Reyes is also founder of the Seminar of Afro-Peruvian Studies at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and is a member of the Nucleus of Symmetrical Anthropology (NAnSi) at the MN/UFRJ and the Archeology of Science and Andean technologies at the UNMSM.

His current research project focuses on the study of the construction of ethno-racial identities through the relations between Afro-descendants and indigenous people in two communities of the Peruvian coast, Zaña and Subtanjalla. As a result of this research, the book “The children of the star and the sun: an etnographic theory of mestizaje” (2023) has been recently published.

For the Mellon Sawyer fellowship, the focus of his project will be on analyzing the emic notions and concepts of citizenship, specifically Afrodescendant citizenship, in Zaña, Peruvian town where historically Afro-Andean assemblages have been developed.