# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/silvia-rivera-cusicanqui
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:37:35.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/silvia-rivera-cusicanqui"
name: "Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui"
slug: "silvia-rivera-cusicanqui"
description: "Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian feminist, sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist. She is emeritus Professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, where she taught Sociology for over thirty years. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quechua and Aymara cosmologies. She is a former director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina. The Taller de Historia Oral Andina has conducted an ongoing critique of Western epistemologies through writings and activism for nearly two decades. She is also an activist who works directly with indigenous movements in Bolivia, such as the Katarista movement and the coca growers movement."
tagline: "Bolivian historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Silvia_Rivera_Cusicanqui.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.927218666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/botchixi"
    handle:    "botchixi"
sources:
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    title: "سيلفيا ريفيرا كوسيكانيكى"
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    title: "Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui"
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    title: "Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui"
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    title: "Ривера Кусиканки, Сильвия"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump