Vita

Armando Guevara Gil is a Peruvian legal anthropologist and historian. He holds a doctorate in law from the University of Amsterdam, a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a law degree from PUCP in Lima. He specialises in the fields of legal pluralism, colonial and republican law in the Andes, water law and indigenous rights. He was a visiting professor at the University of Torino in 2019 and a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory from 2019 to 2020. Currently, he is rector of the Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino (Lircay), an associate researcher at the Instituto del Perú (Lima), and an Affiliate Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

His main publications include Las penas de la monja Dominga Gutiérrez (Arequipa, Perú, 1831) (2019); Out of the Mainstream. Water Rights, Politics and Identity (co-editor, 2010); Diversidad y Complejidad Legal (2009); Derecho, Instituciones y Procesos Históricos (co-editor, 2008); and Propiedad Agraria y Derecho Colonial, Cuzco (1543-1822) (1993). He has also coedited a five-volume series on interdisciplinary approaches to Peruvian water law (214-2019), a volume on anthropological expert witness testimony in Latin America (2015), and published anthropological studies on peasant and indigenous irrigation systems. His chapter on Latin American indigenous peoples and consultation will be published in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology (M.C. Foblets et al., eds, 2021), and his article on the pluralist legal tradition in XIXth-century Peru in a volume edited by P. Collin (Brill and Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, 2021).