Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor

holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and is a professor-researcher at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, CIESAS), based in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.