Johannes Neurath has a master's degree in Ethnology from the University of Vienna and a doctorate in Anthropology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has carried out ethnographic work among Huicholes and Coras since 1992. He is a Researcher at the National Museum of Anthropology, a member of the National System of Researchers (Level III), a professor at the Graduate School of Mesoamerican Studies at the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. From 2006 to 2012 he coordinated a Franco-Mexican project on the anthropology of art. He was a visiting professor at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France and at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. During 2014 and 2015 he was recognized with a Curatorial Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. He has published two books: The Fiestas de la Casa Grande: Ritual Processes, Worldview, and Social Structure in a Huichol Community (University of Guadalajara-National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico, 2002) and The Life of Images. Huichol art (CONACULTA-Arts of Mexico, 2013).