The Institute of Democracy and Human Rights of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP) and the Documentation Center (CENDOC) highlighted the publication titled "Indigenous People and the State: Advances, Limits and Challenges of Indigenous Recognition" of the Abya Yala Publishing House, written by Pedro Garzón López and Óscar Mejía Mesa as one of the best of 2019.

"We want to congratulate and we value your commitment to enrich the historiography on culture, politics and gender studies," said Augusto Rosas, IDEHPUCP.

The book shows how the recognition policy is called into question when, in actual practice, state power continues to prevail over fundamental issues that affect indigenous people, a fact that neutralizes the recognition and substantial scope of autonomy and self-determination. 

"The presence of the State in indigenous societies has not always had substantial justice and indigenous recognition, although it is a process in the making, it still leaves a lot of space for academic reflection. These factors are analyzed in the book, from different thematic perspectives and scientific disciplines, the advances, limits and challenges posed by the indigenous recognition policy in the context of the current states of our region. "

THE BOOK: "SINESTESIAS. BRUJERÍA Y HECHICERÍA EN EL MUNDO HISPÁNICO" 

This book, coordinated by Gerardo Fernández Juárez and Francisco M. Gil García, has been recognized by the Ibero American Organization of Anthropologists in the AIBR Network.
"The information in this book provide historical and ethnographic examples, narrations of our social structure through stories of music, food, diseases, movies or religious movements of ancestral tradition".

One of the authors is professor Fernando Garces and in his article "Brujerías y hechicerías en el léxico del quechua chinchay y del quichua ecuatoriano" he presents a brief semantic analysis of the first books that refer to Ecuadorian Quichua, from the 18th century. It also shows, in a timeline that goes from the colony to the first half of the twentieth century, the various linguistic and religious conceptions of what witchcraft is and how from the time of colonization religious practices of Indians with the desire to impose a Christian doctrine that allows them to exercise their dominion.