Jose Arenas Gómez
He/Him/His/Himself
About
I am from Colombia, I lived in Brazil for several years. I am an anthropologist (Amerindian Ethnology is my main field) and I love the relationship between teaching, scholar research and community engagement.
Research interests
Amerindian Ethnology, kinship, social organization, relationship between humans and non humans. Indigenous epistemology and ontology.
Teaching interests
Anthropology in the broader sense (Classical theory and recent developments). Non western knowledge systems. Power, hierarchy and heterarchy.
Education
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Ph D, Amerindian Ethnology
— University of Brasilia (2016) Sowing Lives. The i´ku person and its existence between the invisible and the visible
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MA, Social Anthropology
— University of Brasilia (2012) Between Harmony and Caos: notes for the analysis of the ethnography in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombian Caribeean
- BS, Anthropology — National University of Colombia (2006)
Performances and Exhibits
- No meio do caminho tinha alguém: era uma pedra (Translated title: in the middle of the road there was someone. It was a stone) 2020
Courses Taught
- INDS Capstone Project
- INDS Capstone Project Seminar
- Ways of Knowledge
- Individualized Study: Honors Independent Study
- INDS MDST Capstone Project 2
- INDS Capstone Project Seminar MDST
- Ways of Knowing
- 490 Capstone Project
- MDST Capstone project Seminar
- Ways of knowing
- Ways of Knowing
- INDS 490 Capstone Project
- Ways of Knowing
- Ways of Knowing