G.a. Perez
Researcher
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Gabina Aurora Pérez Jimenez is a native speaker of the Mixtec language (Sahin Sau) of Mexico with a long experience in the study of Mixtec culture and history. She has participated in the emancipatory movement of Mexican indigenous teachers for bilingual-bicultural education (1980-1988), and acted as a representative of this movement in several sessions of the working group on indigenous peoples of the U.N. in Geneva. She was a student of the program 'Law, Development and Social Justice' (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 1985) and a member of the board of the Dutch foundation "MUSIRO" under the presidency of Prof. Dr. Bas de Gaay Fortman (1986-89). In addition she has acted as a consultant for the Italian non-governmental organisation CRIC in several developmental projects in Mexico (1991-1998). 


Research Interest
Archaeology
Publications
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Jansen M.E.R.G.N. & Pérez Jiménez G.A. (2017), Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art. no. Series The Early Americas: History and Cultures 5. Leiden: Brill.
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Pérez G.A. (2017), Sahin Sau: Palabras y Vivencias. Diccionario contextual mixteco de Ñuu Ndeya (Chalcatongo). Oaxaca (Mexico): El Castor.
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Jansen M.E.R.G.N. & Perez G.A. (2007), Encounter with the Plumed Serpent. Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
