Venezuela → Barcelona → Extremadura → Nicaragua
A career in four chapters.
Organised by place and by what each place added to his way of doing research, not as a list of jobs.
Geography
Four places, one cumulative practice.
The practice accumulates: what is learnt in each place carries into the next.
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Venezuela
Anthropology as a craft: archives, Indigenous peoples, childhood and public institutions. Learning to move between the field and the administration.
Adds: Archives and historyIndigenous peoplesChildhoodPublic institutions
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Barcelona
Ethnography as rigorous method: anthropological theory, intercultural relations and participatory methods with institutionalised children.
Adds: Ethnography as methodIntercultural relationsParticipatory methods
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Extremadura
Research as an applied tool: heritage and territory, organisations and diversity, memory and cooperation.
Adds: Intangible heritageOrganisationsDiversity and memoryCooperation
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Nicaragua
Dialogue of knowledges: intercultural research on the Caribbean Coast, where knowledge is built with the community.
Adds: Dialogue of knowledges
Venezuela
Anthropology, Indigenous peoples, institutions and public policy
His training in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Central University of Venezuela opened a first cycle combining historical and archival research, fieldwork with Indigenous peoples and direct experience in public institutions. Here an idea took shape that runs through all his later work: understanding institutions from within, and understanding communities without losing sight of institutions.
- Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UCV, 2000–2005).
- Historical and archival research on the Inquisition in Venezuela.
- UNICEF project on Ye'kuana child-rearing patterns (2004–2006).
- Experience in the Venezuelan public administration.
- University teaching and teaching in social management.
- Research on ethics and public institutions (2007).
Barcelona
Ethnographic research and intercultural relations
The master's at the Autonomous University of Barcelona consolidated ethnography as a rigorous method and opened new lines: kinship, childhood, gender, migration and bureaucracies. Research on institutionalised children through participatory methods and the analysis of international adoption already show a constant interest in where global norms meet concrete lives.
- MSc in Ethnographic Research, Anthropological Theory and Intercultural Relations (UAB, 2008–2010).
- Research on institutionalised children using participatory methods.
- Article on the construction of internationally adopted children (Revista de Antropología Social, 2009).
2010–2021 period to be completed from the updated CV. Pending
Extremadura
Heritage, organisations, diversity and cooperation
At the University of Extremadura, the doctoral research in La Serena made intangible cultural heritage his central line. In parallel, organisational ethnography, international cooperation and work with Fundación Triángulo on memory, repression and protection of LGBTIQ+ people broadened the applied reach of his practice.
- Doctoral research across the 19 municipalities of La Serena (thesis, 2025).
- Organisational ethnography on diversity and wellbeing (2022).
- Expert training in Development Cooperation (AEXCID and UEx).
- Fundación Triángulo: Qué sabe nadie report and Voces que no callan audio series (2025–2026).
La Serena, Extremadura Diversity and the workplace Qué sabe nadie / Voces que no callan
Nicaragua
Intercultural research and heritage
The Erasmus+ Americampus stay at URACCAN, in collaboration with the University of Extremadura, took his heritage work to Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast. In Bluefields, the study of the Palo de Mayo was built as a dialogue of knowledges with the Afro-descendant Creole community.
- Erasmus+ Americampus stay, URACCAN and UEx.
- Fieldwork in Bluefields (March–May 2022).
- Paper at the 14th Central American Anthropology Congress (Panama, 2023).
Documented institutional experience
Exact dates and job titles to be confirmed from the CV. Pending
- UNICEF Venezuela
- Collaborator and researcher on projects on childhood and Indigenous peoples.
- UNESCO and public institutions
- Research experience on projects. Pending
- Centre for Studies on Growth and Population of Venezuela
- President.
- Vice-Ministry of Food Policy (Venezuela)
- Coordination.
- Microfinance Development Fund (Venezuela)
- Management.
- URACCAN, Bluefields (Nicaragua)
- Research and stay in collaboration with the University of Extremadura.
- Fundación Triángulo
- Research and cooperation on projects about sexual diversity, memory, repression and rights protection. Pending
Teaching
- School of Anthropology, Central University of Venezuela
- University teaching.
- School of Social Management, Ministry of Planning of Venezuela
- Teaching in social management.
Contact
Let's talk about research, territory and social change.
Available for research collaborations, consultancy, cooperation projects, qualitative research, teaching and national and international projects.Pending