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Biography
Raquel Brailowsky-Cabrera is a social anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus. Born in Asunción, Paraguay, she came to Puerto Rico at an early age. She holds a BA from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and an MA and PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
She has published extensively on topics like popular culture and folklore. Her research focused on the mask festivities of the northern area of Puerto Rico. Her thesis, A Study of Popular Culture: Masked Festivities in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, studies Puerto Rican popular culture. She is also the author of the Anthropology chapter in Lina Torres's textbook Introduction to Social Sciences.
Other research includes women, medicinal plants, and the Caribbean. She is a member of national and international organizations such as the Caribbean Studies Association, Latin American Studies Associationand Puerto Rico's Historians Association.
Education
- BA in Humanities, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.
- MA in History and PhD in Social Anthropology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
