drs. Jorge Gamboa Mendoza |
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Born |
Pamplona, Norte de Santander, Colombia |
January 27, 1970
Residence | Bogotá |
Nationality | Colombian |
Fields | History, anthropology |
Institutions | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH) |
Alma mater | Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
Thesis | El Significado de la dote dentro de las prácticas matrimoniales de la sociedad colonial: El caso de la Provincia de Pamplona de la Nueva Granada a finales del siglo XVI (2002) |
Known for | Anthropology, Colombian history |
Jorge Augusto Gamboa Mendoza (Pamplona, 27 January 1970) is a Colombian anthropologist and historian. He has been contributing on the knowledge of colonial and pre-colonial Colombia, especially the Muisca. Jorge Gamboa speaks Spanish and French.
Jorge Gamboa Mendoza was born in the town of Pamplona in the northern department of Norte de Santander. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá from 1988 to 1993 and history from 1993 to 2002 at the same university, graduating with a thesis called El Significado de la dote dentro de las prácticas matrimoniales de la sociedad colonial: El caso de la Provincia de Pamplona de la Nueva Granada a finales del siglo XVI ("The significance of the dowry within the matrimonal practices of the colonial society: The case of the Pamplona Province of the New Kingdom of Granada at the end of the 16th century").
Since 2001 Jorge Gamboa Mendoza is a researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH) in Bogotá.
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