Miguel Astor-Aguilera

Miguel Astor-Aguilera (PhD Anthropology, University at Albany/SUNY) is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University whose scholarship concentrates on material culture and socio-religious theory. He specializes in Mesoamerican ontology and cross-cultural personhood issues. His work currently focuses on Maya ritual specialists in the Yucatan peninsula and their healing rituals as related to their ecological "animistic" environment. Astor-Aguilera teaches Religious Studies courses at ASU in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies.