Sergio D. López (PhD. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2008) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in business anthropology and indigenous communities in Mexico. Sergio has held positions as Chief Financial Officer in European corporations, and he combines this expertise with his long-term fieldwork among the Chol Maya in Chiapas, Mexico.
Sergio is the President and founder of AIBR (Network of Iberoamerican Anthropologists), a professional association that connects more than 10,000 anthropologists in Spain, Portugal and all the Latin American countries. He is the director of the journal ARIES, one of the most widely consulted publications of Anthropology in Spanish and Portuguese.
He coordinates every year the AIBR International Conference of Anthropology and has designed an internship program for SUNY Potsdam students who want to participate in the organization of this annual conference. To learn more about internship opportunities, please contact Dr. Sergio Lòpez at lopezsd@potsdam.edu
Courses at SUNY Potsdam
Dreams, Half of our Life
Business Anthropology
In the Mind of the Other
Professionalism in Anthropology
Anthropology, Film, and Modern Literature in Spain
Cultures of Latin America
Spanish Modern Culture, Literature and Film Spanish Culture
Contemporary Spanish 101, 102, 103
Selected publications
Lòpez, Sergio D. 2023. "Bancos de Silicon Valley, holografía y antropología cuántica." (Silicon Valley Banks, Holography and Quantum Anthropology). ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana. Mayo 2023.
Lòpez, Sergio D. 2021. "Los valores culturales de los mercados de valores" (Cultural values of the stock market values). In Creatividad y Futuro: horizontes antropológicos. Homenaje a Ricardo Sanmartín Arce, edited by Beatriz Moncó and Eloy Gómez Pellón. Bellaterra Eds.
Lòpez, Sergio D. and Lydia Rodríguez. 2019. "Performing Healing: Repetition, Frequency, and Meaning Response in a Chol Maya Healing Ritual." Anthropology of Conciousness, Vol. 30, Issue 1, pp. 42-63.
Lòpez, Sergio D. and Lydia Rodríguez. 2019. "The crossroads of time." In The Culture of Invention in the Americas, edited by P. Pitarch. and J.A. Kelly, 158-184.
Lòpez, Sergio D. 2018. "Antropología aplicada a la inteligencia competitiva. Narrativas sobre el uso de los grandes y pequeños datos" (Anthropology applied to competitive intelligence. Narratives on the use of big and small data) Revista de Economía Industrial, 406: 59-69.
Lòpez, Sergio D. 2017. Antropología de la Empresa (Business Anthropology). Book. Bellaterra Eds.
Lòpez, Sergio D. 2014. "Santos Familiares y Brujos. Análisis de Creencias y Disputas Sociales en dos Relatos Choles." (Family Saints and Witches. An Analysis of Religious Beliefs and Social Conflict in two Chol Stories). In Entre Diversidades. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Vol. I (1): 149-170.