About Carl Henrik Langebaek
Born 1961. Carl Henrik Langebaek is an anthropologist, known for Coca and Muisca people.
Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda (Bogotá, 1961) is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist and historian. He has been contributing on the knowledge of archaeological evidences, especially the Herrera Period and the Muisca. Langebaek was vice-chancellor for academic affairs at Universidad de los Andes.
Since 1992 Langebaek is associate professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá and from 2000 to 2011 he was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the university.
Langebaek Rueda is rector of the university of entrepreneurs, Uniempresarial. Leading institution in the dual model in Colombia, therefore he becomes an honorary ambassador of the Dual Model in the country due to its transformative impact on training and employability.
Langebaek has worked in National Park Tayrona, Fúquene Valley, Barichara, Bahía de Neguaje and north Ecuador and his heroes are Charles Darwin and Niels Bohr.
In 2009 the Premio Alejandro Ángel Escobar en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas was awarded to Langebaek for his book Los herederos del pasado. Indígenas y pensamiento criollo en Colombia y Venezuela. 1987 - Mercados, poblamiento e integración étnica entre los muiscas, siglo XVI. Bogotá: Banco de la República. 1985 - Cuando los muiscas diversificaron la agricultura y crearon el intercambio
Articles 2011. (with co-authors) "Condiciones de vida y jerarquías sociales en el norte de Suraméerica : el caso de la población muisca en Tibanica, Soacha". Indiana no. 28 (2011) 15-34 2005 - "The Pre-Hispanic Population of the Santa Marta Bays. A Contribution to the Study of the Development of the Northern Colombian Tairona Chiefdom" 2001 - "Arqueología regional en el Valle de Leiva: procesos de ocupación humana en una región de los Andes orientales de Colombia" 2000 - "Cacicazgos, orfebrería y política prehispánica: una perspectiva desde Colombia" 1996 - "Arqueología de nosotros mismos. Deterioro ambiental en la laguna de Fúquene" 1996 - "De cómo convertir a los indios y de porqué no lo han sido: Juan de Valcarcel y la idolatría en el altiplano cundiboyacense a finales del siglo XVII" 1994 - "La élite no siempre piensa lo mismo. Indígenas, estado, arqueología y etnohistoria en Colombia" 1992 - "Cuna Chiefs long distance travels: the result of the Conquest" 1992 - "El uso de adornos de metal y la existencia de sociedades complejas: una visión desde Centro de Suramérica" 1992 - "Competencia por el prestigio político y momificación en el norte de Suramérica y el Istmo, siglo XVI" 1990 - "Patologías y la hipótesis de la economía autosuficiente muisca" 1990 - "Buscando Sacerdotes y encontrando chuques: sobre la organización religiosa de los cacicazgos muiscas". Revista de Antropología y Arqueología 6, no. 1.
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Colombian anthropologist and Muisca scholar
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Carl Henrik Langebaek was born in 1961 in Bogotá.
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Carl Henrik Langebaek is an anthropologist.
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Carl Henrik Langebaek is known for Coca and Muisca people.
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