Carlos Eduardo Franky

Carlos Eduardo Franky

Anthropologist, Master's Degree in Amazonian Studies, PhD in Rural Development Sociology, Wageningen University, Netherlands. His research experience focuses on the regional ethnology of the Colombian Amazon. These studies involve indigenous territoriality, environmental management, ethnohistory, social organization, ethnicity, sociocultural change, and post-contact situations of groups in voluntary isolation. Management of research programs with the Nukak and Yujup, both nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples, as well as with the Tanimuca and Macuna, eastern Tucano groups inhabiting the Lower Apaporis basin. This research has complemented his teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate programs at the National University of Colombia, Amazonia campus. In these programs, he teaches courses on regional history and ethnology, indigenous land and environmental management, and social science research techniques and methods. Experience in advising local communities, indigenous organizations, state entities, and NGOs on issues such as land use planning, education, health, community participation, and state attention to indigenous peoples of nomadic tradition.