Professor of Social Anthropology at the National University of Distance Education, trained as an anthropologist at the Autonomous University of Madrid and University College, University of London. He has conducted fieldwork in Galicia and northern Portugal and research that address the various problems of economic anthropology. He is currently preparing a new fieldwork in the Rif within projects Reciprocity Study Group (GER) of part.

She is the author of works such as rural comunáis Traballos not: o Field axudas system Lameiro; The money ?; Da fictional matriarchy to do informal economy: models and Relacións of xénero na Galician culture; Between Thanksgiving and satanic mill or anthropological Crossroads. He has edited the posthumous book by Karl Polanyi The livelihood of man, with Susana Narotzky, a monographic volume on reciprocity, as well as several articles, including "Reciprocity's Dark Side: Reciprocity, Morality and Social Theory." She is also author of several publications on racism, genocide and living conditions in the extreme situation of the concentration camps, as Racism, heterophobia and nationalism; Voices of Auschwitz; No relatives; The political economy of extermination; Claims of justice and politics of memory, and in the heart of the gray area: an ethnographic reading camps Auschwitz, published in this Editorial.