# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anibal-quijano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:55:18.989Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anibal-quijano"
name: "Anibal Quijano"
slug: "anibal-quijano"
description: "Aníbal Quijano was a Peruvian sociologist and humanist thinker, known for having developed the concepts of \"coloniality of power\" and \"coloniality of knowledge\". His body of work has been influential in the fields of decolonial studies and critical theory."
tagline: "Peruvian sociologist (1928-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano_III_Congreso_Latinoamericano_y_Caribe%C3%B1o_de_Ciencias_Sociales_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1930-11-17"
deathDate: "2018-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.38993066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Anibal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano_Obreg%C3%B3n"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano Obregón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB"
    title: "Кихано, Анибал"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal_Quijano"
    title: "Aníbal Quijano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1432523"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump