• Professor-Researcher, National University of Mexico

• Certificat d'Etudes Français, Université de Genève, Switzerland, 1964
• M. A. in Anthropology, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1970
• Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1975

• Researcher-Lecturer, El Colegio de México, 1972-85
• Academic Co-ordinator, Department of Sociology, El Colegio de México, 1975-77
• Researcher-Consultant, International Labour Organization, 1979-81
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, 1982
• Director, National Museum of Popular Cultures, 1985-88
• President, Mexican Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists, 1985-88
• Researcher, Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 1988-91
• Director, Institute of Anthropological Research, (UNAM), 1991-94
• Secretary, Mexican Academy of Science, 1992-94
• Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO, 1994-98
• Researcher, CRIM, 1998

• Joint Latin-American Committee, Social Science Research Council (U.S.A.), 1987-90
• Steering Committee, Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era (DAWN), 1985-89
• President, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), 1988-93
• Steering Committee Overcoming Hunger in the 1990's, 1990-93
• Executive Committee, International Social Science Council (ISSC), 1991-92
• Vice-President, Society for International Development, 1991-94
• Vice-President, ISSC, 1992-94
• Commissioner of the World Commission on Culture and Development, 1992-94
• Board of Trustees, CIESIN, 1993-96
• Executive Council, Latin American Studies Association-LASA 1994-96
• Advisory Panel, Human Development Report . UNDP, 1997-98
• Board on Sustainable Development, (BSD), National Research Council,1996-00
• Advisory Committee on the Environment-ACE (ICSU) 1996-1998
• Director of Research for the World Culture Report, UNESCO, 1996-1998
• Member of the Advisory Group on Social Affairs for the Latin America and the Carribean Region, World Bank, 1997
• Assistant Director-General for Culture Unesco, 1994-98
• Member of Jury for Prize on International Scientific Cooperation, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1998-
• Vice-President for Science, International Social Science Council, 1998

• Fullbright-Hays scholarship, 1978
• John D. Guggenheim grant, 1982
• Benigno Aquino Medal for Distinguish Service to developing countries, William and Mary College, USA, 1992
• Award for Distinguished Service in Culture, Ministry of Culture, Pakistan, 1996
• Honorary Member, Royal Anthropology Institute, 1997-1998
• Guest speaker, American Anthropological Association Conference, Chicago, 1999

• Founder Nueva Antropología, 1978, (Mexico)
• Founder Revista Fem, 1975, (Mexico)
• On editorial boards of: Revista de Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos, 1977-82, (Colombia)
• Signs: Women in Culture and Society , 1978-80,(University of Chicago, U.S.A.)
• Latin American Research Review, 1980-82,, (U.S.A.)
• Journal of Latin American Studies, 1980-84 (U.K.)
• Nexos, 1982- (Mexico)
• México Indígena, 1985-89, (Mexico)
• Journal of Urban Anthropology, 1984-90 (U.S.A.)
• Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 1984-88, (U.S.A.)
• Publication Committee, UNESCO Publishing, 1994-98
• Advisory Committee, Anuario Social Político de América Latina y el Caribe, FLACSO, 1997-1998.
• Chair, Scientific Committee. World Culture Report. Unesco. Edited the first issue in June, 1998; second issue, in process.

• President, World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, August 1993.
• Participant in 9 regional consultations of the World Commission on Culture and Development (WCCD) 1992-95; presentations of the Report of the WCCD, Our Creative Diversity in 22 countries 1995-98.
• Chair, Organizing Committee, Conference on the Status of the Artist, UNESCO, June, 1997.
• Chair, Organizing Committee, Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development, UNESCO, Stockholm, Sweden, March 1998.

In Spanish
 

• Kinship and economy in a Nahua Society (1972)
• Indians in the city: the case of the A Marias @ (1975)
• Migration, ethnicity and economic change (1978)
• Peasants and migration (1986)
• Culture and development: an ethnographic study of a Mexican community(1990)
• Women and development in Mexico and Latin America (1990)

• Contemporary anthropology of Mexico: a summary, (1993)
• State of the Art in anthropology in Latin America, (1993) 
  
  
  In Spanish and English

• Culture and Global Change: Social Perceptions of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, (1995) as Editor
• The cultural dimensions of global change: An anthropological approach, Paris, UNESCO Publishing, (1996)

• "On Culture and Social Sustainability", in Development, 1997: 110-117. Reprint of article published in the same journal in 1989.ñL´ínnovation et la technologie au service du patrimoine de l´humaniteî en Actes du Colloque Innovation et technologie au service du patrimoine de l´humanite. Paris:ADMITECH et Unesco. 1996.
• "Chiapas: The Basic Problems" in Identities, pp. 219-233, OPA, 1996. Also published in Spanish, by CRIM-UNAM, 1994.
• "Women and Conflict in a Changing World", in A Commitment to the World's Women: Perspectives on Development for Beijing and Beyond, UNIFEM, 1996.
• "Conviviability: The Role of Civil Society in Development" in Global Aid 1997-1998, Vol. 3, 1997.
• ñSustainable Development in Forest Areasî en Encuentros Antropologicos: Power, Identity and Mobility in Mexican Society, V. Napolitano y Xochitl Leyva, comps. Londres: Universidad de Londres.1998.
• ñCulture and Globalizationî. Human Development Report Working Papers. In press.
• ñCultural Heritage and Globalizationî. Getty Conservation Institute. In press.

On the Internet The World Commission on Culture and Development
Web site: http://www.unesco.org/cultureanddevelopment/wccd/wccd.html
The Power of Culture
Web site: http://www.kit.nl.kvc
World Culture Report
Web site: http://www.unesco.org/culture/worldreport