MIGUEL ASTOR-AGUILERA (PhD Anthropology - University at Albany/SUNY) is an Arizona State University Associate Professor whose scholarship concentrates on religious studies, sociocultural anthropology, ethnography, material culture, and archaeology focusing on Indigenous epistemologies within Latin America. He specializes in Mesoamerican cosmovisions and their historical traditions, that is, pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary. His work specializes on Maya ritual specialists in the Yucatán peninsula and their cosmologies as related to their environment. Astor-Aguilera currently teaches courses at Arizona State University in Religious Studies, within the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, that are cross-listed with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Anthropology) and the School of Transborder Studies (Latin American Studies). He has been Faculty Head (Chair) of Religious Studies, Director of Graduate Studies for Religious Studies, and Associate Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at ASU.
Astor-Aguilera conducts research focused on Indigenous Latin America. He specializes in Mesoamerican religions including that of contemporary “folk” healers in the United States/Mexico border zone. His research, being a sociocultural anthropologist, ethnographer, iconographer, and archaeologist specializing in religious studies is interdisciplinary and social historically holistic in method and theory. Astor-Aguilera currently conducts ethnographic investigations of cenote-sinkholes in the Yucatán peninsula and their associated religious rituals and epistemologies amongst the Maya peoples of Mexico.
The Maya World of Communicating Objects: Quadripartite Crosses, Trees, & Stones. 2010. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood & Materiality. 2018. Co-Editor Graham Harvey. London: Routledge.
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
REL 205 | Life, Sex and Death |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
REL 331 | History of Native Am Religions |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 626 | Themes:Anthropology of Rel |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
REL 205 | Life, Sex and Death |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 382 | Magick, Religion and Science |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 691 | Seminar |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 599 | Thesis |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |