3 Societies and cultures of the macroandean area. Ethnic identity, continuity and changes processes up to the present. External social interactions, migration and development problems. Aspects of social, economical and political organization, and worldview. 3 Course oriented to specific topics of Social Anthropology such as Anthropology of symbolic systems, Anthropology of Gender, Political Anthropology, Economical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Educational Anthropology and Anthropology of Belief, among others.
Special emphasis is given to examples related to Latin America and Chile.
4.5 Anthropology and the study of urban problems, development and urbanization, spatial distribution and urban heterogeneity, urbanization and complexity of roles, rural migration and urban marginality. Problems of urban Anthropology. Field work in urban units. 3 Workshops aimed at applying methodologies, techniques learning and qualitative instruments design with increasing complexity and depth of the topics under study. Fuego traditional societies and other similar groups.