Fulbright-Hays scholarship , 1978.

John D. Guggenheim scholarship , 1982.

Award for Service to Indigenous Peoples , Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1978.

Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, 1986.

Member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores III 1985-2002.

National System of Researchers, Mexico, Level III, 1989-2002

Awarded the Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Prize for Best Anthropological Book, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico,1990.

Awarded the Benigno Aquino Award for Distinguished Service to Developing Countries, William and Mary College, USA, 1992.

Included as an author in the Seminar “ Mexican Thinkers of the 20th Century” (“Pensadores Mexicanos del siglo XX¨) organizaed by the National University of Mexico, 1993.

Awarded the Gorjanovic-Krambergeri Prize of the Croatian Anthropological Society, Zagreb, Croatia, 1993.

Member and Director of Secretariat ofU.N. Commission on Culture and Development, 1992-94.

Assistant Director-General for Culture in UNESCO, 1994-1998.

Award for Distinguished Service in Culture , Ministry of Culture, Pakistan, 1996;

Member of the Advisory Council of the National Committee of the World Conference for Women held in China, 1995.

Member of the Advisory Council for the Environment, International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), 1996-2000.

Recognition for participation in the Simposio Mundial de Investigación Activa y Análisis Científico , held in Cartagena, Colombia, 1997.

Recognition for coordination of the World Congress on the Condition of the Artist, organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and Unesco, Paris, 1997.

Honorary Member, Royal Anthropology Institute , United Kingdom, 1997.

Member of Group of Eminent Persons for the U.N. Dialogue of Civilizations, 2000-01.

Chair, Committee on Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Mexican Council for the Reform of the State, 2001

Chair, Committee on Principles, Mexican Citizen´s Council against Discrimination.

Visiting Fellow, Andres Bello Chair, New York University, 2002.

Laureana Wright Award as “Wise Woman of Mexico” Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. Academia Nacional de la Mujer , 2003.

Award given by the Municipal Government of the town of Zacualpan, Morelos for activities aimed at revitalizing intangible cultural heritage, October 2004.

President, International Social Science Council , 2002-2004, reelected 2004-2008.

Lourdes Arizpe Award on Political and Environmental Studies awarded every two years by the American Anthropological Association, 2004-2010.

Member of the Academic Faculty of the Economic Global Forum of Davos, Switzerland 1999-2004.

Member of the Board of Trustees, Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt 2005-20018. Chair, Board of the United Nations Research on Social Development Institute (UNRISD) 2006-2016.

Women Investing in Women Award, Semillas A.C., Mexico, 2006.

Keynote speaker, session to commemorate the 25^thanniversary of the Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policy held in Mexico City, at the House of Representatives of the National Congress of Mexico, August 8, 2007.

Awarded the National Order of Palmes Académiques, France, 2007.

Awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, USA, 2010.

"Vasco de Quiroga Award " to the "Woman of the Year 2011" by Delegación Álvaro Obregón, February 2011.

Awarded the Medalla al Mérito of the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico 2010.

Keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony of the 2011-2012 promotion of M2/MBA de Droit des Affaires et de Management-Gestion by L´École de Droit et Management de Paris , Panthéon Assas-Sorbonne Universités, October 2012.

Raymond Firth Distinguished Lecturer Award at the Congress of the International Union for Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Manchester 2013.

Award “Tribute to Women” to conmemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Women’s Vote in Mexico, Senate of the Republic, LXII Legislature, Mexico, 2013.

Award “La Venera José Ma. Morelos y Pavón” given to promoters of popular culture by the government of the State of Morelos 2014.

Visiting Scholar , University of Manchester, United Kingdom, September 2014.

Visiting Scholar , London School of Economics and Political Science, 2017.

Keynote Speaker , International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, organized by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, held in Mérida, Yucatán, November 9, 2021.