The Anthropology program belongs to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cauca.

Anthropology is a social discipline that deals with understanding and explaining the construction, recreation, and dynamics of culture and identity. In Colombia emerged in the  1940s, linked to forms of discourse on the indigenous, existing in the social sciences. This speech constitution of otherness in Colombia reached its peak in the country with the institutionalization of Anthropology as a discipline of academic training college in the decade of the sixties. The University of Cauca established the Anthropology program in 1970, also attached to the nascent School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cauca.  Since then the curriculum has had several renovations and has served the academic needs of multiple students interested in the application and development of the discipline in our country. The greatest achievements of the program have been the start of the master program (2010) and Ph.D. (2007), completing the training course, the first in Colombia. Today its graduates contribute their expertise to the development of social research in the country. And in the professional level, promote national and international organizations in the processes of change, negotiation and interaction in relation to programs, Life Plans, consultation processes, etc.

One of the strengths of the program is the research component, which reflects the consolidation of eight research groups led by professors in the department, appropriately ranked in Colciencias: Anthropos, Anthropacifico, Legal Anthropology, History and Ethnology, Archaeological Studies, Sociopedagogical and Cultural Linguistic Studies in southwestern Colombia, Comparative Social Studies, Culinary Heritage and Soma.

Professional Profile

The Anthropolist graduated from the University of Cauca will be able to investigate problems of interest in Anthropology and Archeology. May provide his/her assistance in socio-cultural activities such as public health programs in rural areas, indigenous, blacks, marginalized communities etc., educational programs in bilingual education activities, programs of economic, urban, rural development, etc.