Lourdes Arizpe

Born (1945-10-04) October 4, 1945 (age 80)

Mexico City

AlmamaterUniversity of Geneva

OccupationsProfessor of humanities and anthropology

EmployerNational Autonomous University of Mexico

Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser
Born	(1945-10-04) October 4, 1945 (age 80) Mexico City
Alma mater	University of Geneva
Occupations	Professor of humanities and anthropology
Employer	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Honours	Guggenheim Fellowship

María de Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser (b. 1945), habitually cited as Lourdes Arizpe, is a Mexican professor in anthropology.^[1] In 1964, she obtained a Certificate in French Studies from the University of Geneva;^[2] in 1965, she studied history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained a degree in ethnology in 1985 from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico City.^[3] She obtained a doctorate in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the same year. In 2010, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Florida in Gainesville.^{[citation needed]}

Arizpe is Chair of Anthropology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has been director of the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares and secretary of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Between 1994 and 1998, she was Adjunct Director of UNESCO in Culture, president of the World Congress on the Status of the Artist, and president of the Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1998. Lourdes was also a member and secretary general of the Rio Conference,^{[citation needed]} president of the International Social Science Council, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the International Science Council. She presided over the Board of Directors of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva.^{[citation needed]}

Arizpe has published in various anthropological fields, including indigenous cultures, migration studies, women's studies, cultural sustainability and social sustainability, and intangible cultural heritage.^[4]