Carmen Bernand | |
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| Born | Carmen Muñoz (1939-09-19)19 September 1939 (age 85) France |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Occupation(s) | Historian,anthropologist,Latin Americanist |
| Employer | Paris Nanterre University |
| Notable work | The Incas: People of the Sun |
| Spouse | André Bernand |
Carmen Bernand (bornCarmen Muñoz on 19 September 1939) is a Frenchanthropologist,historian andLatin Americanist.
Carmen Bernand was born in France toSpanish refugee parents, she lived in Argentina for 25 years, where she studiedethnology at theUniversity of Buenos Aires. At the end of 1964, she moved to Paris and prepared a postgraduate thesis under the direction ofClaude Lévi-Strauss.[1] In 1966, she married theepigraphistAndré Bernand [fr] (1923–2013).
Bernand is a specialist in the history ofNew World andLatin America, she conducted field surveys ofAndean populations in Argentina, Peru and Ecuador. Since the late 1980s, she has devoted herself to the historical anthropology of Latin America.
She teaches at theParis Nanterre University and is a member of theInstitut Universitaire de France.[2] She is also a deputy director of theCentre de recherches sur les mondes américains ('Centre for Research on the American Worlds') since 1999 and member of editorial board of the anthropological and museological journalGradhiva.[3]
WithSerge Gruzinski, she publishedDe l’idolâtrie : Une archéologie des sciences religieuses and two volumes ofHistoire du Nouveau Monde. She is the author ofUn Inca platonicien : Garcilaso de la Vega 1539–1616 and a heavily illustratedpocket book for “Découvertes Gallimard”,Les Incas : Peuple du Soleil, which has been translated into ten languages, including English. She also wrote in Spanish a crime novel set inInca Empire.[1]
