Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca
Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca is a linguistic anthropologist, director of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS), and holder of the Religions des Indiens Sud-Américains : sociétés des Basses Terreschair at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE). A specialist in Quechua languages, she devotes her research to the analysis of ritual voice and the learning of Amerindian verbal arts. In the course of her investigations in Amazonia and the Andes, she has studied the secret languages of shamans, the relationship between orality and writing, and the relationship between shamanism and hunting. Her work focuses on the relationships between thought and language, perception and ritual action (Guérir, Tuer, L'Herne 2017 ;Livres sorciers, Gradhiva, 2021 ;Lévi-Strauss. Penser le monde autrement, Cahiers d'anthropologie sociale 2022). She heads the " Anthropologie linguistique " team she founded with Pierre Déléage at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale. She is President of the Société des Amis des Sciences Religieuses à l'EPHE-PSL (SASR).