First published monograph (2003),
Alban: High level scholarships for postgraduate students from Latin America (2005),
PhD (2008),
A. v. Humboldt Foundation fellowship (2012),
Prize for the best published article by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) (2020).
Juan Rivera’s ongoing research examines cosmologies among indigenous groups of South America, particularly Quechua-speaking peoples of the highlands. His projects have received the support of the UNESCO, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, and they have taken place in research centres such as the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, the Smithsonian Institution, the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, and the universities of Barcelona and Nanterre. Among his publications is his first monograph La fiesta del ganado en el valle del Chancay (2003); the recent articles, chapters and review essays: « Comparaison entre la herranza, la « fête de l’eau » et la zafa-casa dans les Andes » (Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2014) “Andean Musical Expressions. Ethnographic notes on materialities, ontologies and alterities” (Seligmann & Fine-Dare: The Andean World. Routledge, 2019), “Recent methodological approaches in ethnographies of human and non-human Amerindian collectives” (Reviews in Anthropology, 2019), “Indigenous Divergences from the Sacrifice Zones and Rehabilitations of Extractivism” (The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2022), and “Re-enchantment and correspondence in the Anthropocene” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2022). In the last years, he has edited the volumes Non-humans in Amerindian South America (2018) and Indigenous life projects and extractivism (coedited with Cecilie Ødegaard, 2019). He also coproduced a video installation and film series with P. Snowdon entitled The owners of the land: Culture and the spectre of mining in the Andes (2013).
In press. Cañaris II: Arquitectura, organología y tradición oral en Incahuasi y regiones circunvecinas. Buenos Aires: Ethnographica.
Co-edited. Submitted. Ownership Otherwise. Amerindian Ethnographies on forms of Ownership in South America. Duke University Press.
2024. “Los ritos ganaderos amerindios cincuenta años después”. Allpanchis. Vol. 51 Nr. 93, pp. 9-432. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v51i93
2024. “Los ritos ganaderos amerindios cincuenta años después Asedios etnográficos a las relaciones entre humanos y animales desde los Andes y más allá”. Presentación al dossier. Allpanchis. Vol. 51 Nr. 93, pp. 9-24. https://doi.org/10.36901/1587
2023. “Notas sobre un dispositivo ontológico y su omisión histórica entre la expedición de un naturalista y los inicios de la Antropología andinista en el Perú”. Revista Española de Antropología Americana, 53(2).
In press. “Identities: Monsters in the Andes, A Perspectivist Critique of Eighteenth-Century Peruvian Extractivist Nostalgia”. In A Cultural History of Monsters in the Long 18th Century (1650-1815), ed. Persephone Braham. (part of the The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Monsters in the Long Eighteenth Century (1650-1815))
2024. “Mi maestro Alejandro Ortiz Rescaniere (1941-2024)”. Notas de Antropología de las Américas, 3, 340-348.
2024. “Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020”. In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 30, Issue 2: 518-519. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14138
2024. “Briggs, Charles L. (2021) Unlearning. Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge, Utah State University Press”. In Bulletin of Latin American Research. Vol. 43, Issue 1: 94-95. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13545
2024. “Música y rodeo en el Valle de Chancay. Eimer Sucuple, Sergio Arellano y Margoth Manuelo.(2020). Lima: Escuela Nacional Superior de Folklore José María Arguedas”. El oído pensante, 12(2).
2024. “Un descubrimiento mayor para la etnografía andina y un recuento teórico fundamental de la antropología de la religión: Reseña del libro de Frank Salomon, At the Mountains’ Altar: Anthropology of Religionin an Andean Community (Routledge, 2018)”. Allpanchis, 2024, vol. 51, no 93, p. 421-432.
2024. “En busca de un equilibrio: el valor de la etnografía y la pertinencia de la ideología: Reseña de La herranza de Pasco. Celebración de la vida a cargo del Proyecto Qhapaq Ñan (Lima: Ministerio de Cultura, 2014)”. Allpanchis, 51(93), 407-420.
2024. “Un llamado a la etnografía del pastoralismo desde la arqueología de los Andes y algunas notas sobre la (in) definición de rito: Reseña del libro The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism deJosé M. Capriles y Nicholas Tripcevich (eds.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016”. Allpanchis, 51(93), 401-406.
2024. “Erikson, Philippe, and Valentina Vapnarsky (eds.): Living Ruins. Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes”. Anthropos, 119(1), 249-251.
2024. “Marchina, Charlotte: Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders. Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia”. Anthropos, 119(1), 277-278.
2023. “Ethnography and sound: recent methodological efforts in a strongly patrimonialised space”. Sound Studies, DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2022.2163800
2023. “Vinciane Despret, La Danse du cratérope écaillé. Naissance d’une théorie éthologique”. L’Homme. Revue française d’anthropologie, (245), 161-163.
2023. “Muñoz Morán, Oscar (ed.): Ensayos de etnografía teórica: Andes. (Madrid: Nola, 2021), 412 pp”. Disparidades. Revista de Antropología, 78(2), r025-r025.
2023. “Cushing, Frank Hamilton. 2022. Tenatsali ou l’ethnologue qui fut transformé en Indien. Editado por Patrick Pérez et Frédéric Saumade. Traducido por Éléonore Devevey. Paris: CNRS Éditions”. Anuário Antropológico, 48(2).
2023. “Jack Goody, Petit traité d’histoire globale”. Lectures . https://doi.org/10.4000/lectures.61095
2023. “Vilaça, Aparecida: Paletó and Me. Memories of My Indigenous Father. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021”. Anthropos, 118(1), 285-286.
