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Abdel Hernandez San Juan Theorist, critic and autor Theorist of linguistics and semiology, sociologist and anthropologist, Abdel Hernández San Juan is the author of numerous books of classical philosophy, theoretical sociology, semiotic theory and cultural anthropology such as The correlate of the world: interpretant and structure in postmodern cultural theory, thinking science: new phenomenological avenues between philosophy and sociology, The enigmas of Ground: introduction to semiological sociology, The Museum Methonims: The Textual Exégesis of Visual Culture between Semiotic theory and posmodern anthropology, The subject in creativity: New Ways to the anthropology of art, rethinking intertextuality: research method in sociology of culture, The semantic elucidation: semiotic, sociolinguistic and semantic theory of culture, among others Abdel is Visiting Theoretical Professor of the Faculties of Classical and Hispanic Studies at Rice University in the area of semiotic theory, anthropology and art theory, visiting professor of the Department of Anthropology at Rice University since 1997, and Associate Research Fellow of the Department of Anthropology at Rice University in Houston, Texas since 1997, teaching courses, seminars and conferences at numerous institutions such as the Rice Media Center and Fondren Library at Rice University, he is co-founder and artistic director of the transart foundation of Houston, Texas for research in art and anthropology, and visiting professor at the Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology at Lake Forest College in Chicago, in the areas of anthropology, tourism, museums, cultural representations and Mayan crafts between the United States and Mexico Since 1997 in Texas, Abdel has emerged as one of the most original theorists of the new turn of postmodern anthropology in the United States. From his own perspective in semiotic theory and phenomenological sociology, he has developed as the protagonist of an innovative ethnomethodological revival of the social sciences between art and anthropology in the United States together with others such as Stephen Tyler and Quetzil Eugenio Castañeda. He has given lectures on many panels such as the ethnomethodology congress at the University of Houston, anthropology, tourism and art at Lake Forest College, and at the anthropology and lasa congresses in Chicago and Florida respectively, as well as given courses, seminars and conferences at numerous universities and museums in Venezuela in the nineties where he was a researcher at the research center of the Armando Reverón university institute and curator at the Alejandro Otero museum of visual arts.