The program offers a comprehensive education of researchers anthropologists by linking to actual research to academia.

On the other hand, the program provides interdisciplinary training by offering courses that link various disciplinary perspectives and through the curricular flexibility, given the possibility that students learning in some subjects, from the second semester, in other departments of the University of Cauca, or even at other universities that advance programs with which the University of Cauca has or can formalize agreements.

The Masters is supported by the following groups and lines of research:
Comparative Social Studies Group
 

Research Lines:
Anthropology of beliefs and religions.
Identity, power, conflict, war, and social groups.
Processes and social and cultural changes in the currencies.
Anthropology of knowledge and technology.
Gender relations and re-constitution of societies and cultures.
Legal Anthropology, History, and Ethnology
Research Lines:
Legal Anthropology.

Construction of otherness and worldview.
Special Indigenous Jurisdiction
Crime History.

Anthropos
Research Lines:
Human Being, environment, and society.
Human Being and history.
Human Being, health, and quality of life.
Medical systems and intercultural.
Ethnomedicine.
Intercultural epidemiology.
Relation body-language-thought.
Representations of the human body, health, and disease.
Medicine as a reflection of thought.
Food, history, symbolism, and food security.
Life plans
 

Regional Archaeological Studies
Study of prehispanic societies.
Historical archaeology.
Preventive and rescue archaeology.
Linguistic, pedagogical, and cultural studies in southwestern Colombia.

Cultures, language, and education.
Ethnoeducation and school.
Life plans.
Linguistic description.
Sociolinguistic.
Ethnolinguistic.
Conceptualization of education in non-Western perspective: cognitive and cultural identity. Diversity and knowledge.
Antropacific
Biomedical anthropology.
Growth and development.

Epidemiological anthropology.
 

Cauca Culinary Heritage
Culinary.
Cultural heritage and ethnography.
Cultural studies.
History of mentalities and imaginary. 

 

Degree: Master in Anthropology.

Program Coordinator: Tulio Rojas Curieux.

Place where it is offered: Popayan

Schedule: Day and evening classes.

Modality: The classes are held in a classroom setting.

Duration: Four (4) semesters.

Code SNIES: 54866.

 

For more information please contact:

Office of Graduate Studies
Tel: +57 2820 99 00 ext.  1205 - 1206 - 1207 - 1309 – 1340

Fax: +57 2820 9800 Ext 2275
Address: Calle 4 # 3 - 73 de Popayán
Email: direcposgrados@unicauca.edu.co