Marisol de la Cadena je profesorkou antropológie na University of California, Davis. Jej dielo sa ponára do hlbokých prepojení medzi ľudskými bytosťami a svetom, skúmajúc praktické ekológie v andských svetoch. Autorka sa zameriava na to, ako tieto vzťahy formujú naše chápanie existencie a našej úlohy v nej.
Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices.
A study of how Cuzco's indigenous people have transformed the terms "Indian" and "mestizo" from racial categories to social ones, thus creating a de-stigmatized version of Andean heritage.