I am an ethnohistorian of medicine and science of Latin America with specialties in the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, particularly the colonial and contemporary Maya. More broadly, I am interested in the making of metaphysical knowledges and epistemologies of experience of the early modern world. My current historical scholarly projects include two book projects. The first, Between Magic and Medicine: Colonial Yucatec Healing and the Spanish Atlantic World , explores networks of sickness and healing in colonial Yucatán and local production of medical knowledge in the Enlightenment-era Spanish Atlantic. The history of medicine, I argue, has largely overlooked the experiential and cooperative foundations of the production of knowledge. The second, tentatively titled The Morality of the Moon: Fable, Science, and Fiction in Enlightenment Mexico, examines how popular and, often, censored sixteenth and seventeenth centuries accounts of lunar travel reflected the tenuous emergence of modern metaphysics.  My longstanding anthropological research involves the contemporary ethnobotany and lived medical practices of the Lacandón Maya of Chiapas, Mexico. Read more at rakashanipour.com