Jose Arenas Gómez

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

  • Ph D, Amerindian Ethnology — University of Brasilia (2016)
    Sowing Lives. The i´ku person and its existence between the invisible and the visible
  • 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 IRIS - Laboratório de Imagem e Registro de Interações Sociais (UnB)

Courses Taught

  • INDS Capstone Project INDS 490 · Spring 2025
  • INDS Capstone Project Seminar INDS 480 · Spring 2025
  • Ways of Knowledge INDS 330 · Spring 2025
  • Individualized Study: Honors Independent Study INDS 400 · Fall 2024
  • INDS MDST Capstone Project 2 INDS 490 · Spring 2024
  • INDS Capstone Project Seminar MDST INDS 480 · Spring 2024
  • Ways of Knowing INDS 330 · Spring 2024
  • 490 Capstone Project INDS 490 · Spring 2023
  • MDST Capstone project Seminar INDS 480 · Spring 2023
  • Ways of knowing INDS 330 · Spring 2023
  • Ways of Knowing INDS 330 · Spring 2023
  • INDS 490 Capstone Project INDS 490 · Fall 2022
  • Ways of Knowing INDS 330 · Fall 2022
  • Ways of Knowing INDS 330 · Fall 2022