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SequenceTypeName TitleFirst NameLast NameDepartmentInstitute / Affiliation
1 Author Dr. Alexander Armando Cordoves Santiesteban Educational Anthripology Postdoc
Abstract Information
TrackID
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IUAES23_ABS_E7073
Abstract Theme
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P075 - World Anthropologies: Learning across Countries, Cultures and Disciplines
Abstract Title
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Open, Sesame! Comings and goings of anthropology teaching and Cuban higher education policies.
Short Abstract
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There have been no undergraduate training courses for anthropologists in Cuba in the last 60 years. During this period, some postgraduate programmes were briefly implemented. The educational reform, which started in 2000, incorporated cultural anthropology as a matter of social science programmes. What does that lack impact anthropological practices in Cuba?
Long Abstract
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Cuban anthropological traditions had their training venues closed in the 1960s Cuban higher education. Training practices had to take other paths to ensure that anthropological thought survived. In the Cuban university context, only brief post-graduate courses can be identified until the 2000s, when the teaching of anthropology reappeared, although not in the anthropologist's training. As part of the higher education reform undertaken in 2000, psychology, sociology, sociocultural studies, and other social and human sciences courses incorporated cultural anthropology into their curricula. It opened a window for the expansion of anthropological thinking and the dissemination of the practices that were being developed. This paper analyses Cuban higher education policies and their implications for the teaching of anthropology.
Abstract Keywords
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Cuban higher education policies; Teaching of anthropology in Cuba