Carmen Bernand

Carmen Bernand was born in France to Spanish refugee parents, she lived in Argentina for 25 years, where she studied ethnology at the University of Buenos Aires.

Bernand is a specialist in the history of New World and Latin America, she conducted field surveys of Andean populations in Argentina, Peru and Ecuador.

[2] She is also a Deputy Director of the Centre 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 journal Gradhiva.

[3] With Serge Gruzinski, she published De l’idolâtrie : Une archéologie des sciences religieuses and two volumes of Histoire du Nouveau Monde.

She is the author of Un Inca platonicien : Garcilaso de la Vega 1539–1616 and a heavily illustrated pocket book for “Découvertes Gallimard”, Les Incas : Peuple du Soleil, which has been translated into ten languages, including English.