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Lucrezia Milillo is an anthropologist of material culture, focusing on Native American artefacts and how they materialize indigenous knowledge. Her expertise bridges the anthropology of technology and sensory experiences with laboratory material analyses, informed by ethnographic fieldwork with source communities.
Her research agenda is grounded in a multidisciplinary approach to material culture, problematising scientific laboratory analyses of artefacts through an anthropological lense. Currently, she works for the SAPIENCE project, exploring the trajectories of graphic traditions and script invention in Mesoamerica.
During her PhD she studied the Andean “khipu”: a textile technology for recording information and for ritual practice. She examined the meaning potentials of khipu materials beyond their visual morphological traits, coordinating three IPERION-HS EU projects for the analysis of khipu fibres and colours across five heritage European laboratories.
