I am a Colombian anthropologist and doctoral student in Brazil at the University of Brasilia. My main focus is the ethnology of South American Indians, social organization, kinship, cosmology, relations between humans and non-humans. I have a special interest in the relations between indigenous people and the non-Indians as well as the production of anthropological theory.

My research was undertaken in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the Colombian Caribbean, especially with the I’ku, indigenous Chibcha speakers, that share the Sierra Nevada with another three indigenous groups from the same Chibchan roots and with peasants. My doctoral research is about the construction of the person in the I´ku context and has three main pillars: the social networks the I´ku weave with the non-humans, the agency of the ritual specialist, the mamu, in those social networks and the objectification of these relations in the vital cycle context.