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Peru is without a doubt one of the most attractive countries in Latin America. Its ecological and cultural diversity, the impressive variety of its landscapes, the cheerful character of its people and its historically rich cities and beautiful archaeological monuments, all combine to make of Peru a unique country in the world. Placed on the central western coast of South America, Peru offers an immense variety of landscapes and climates, result of the uniqueness of its geographical location. Historically Peruvian current territory has also been home to some of the richest pre-Columbian civilizations, characteristically complex societies that achieved extremely high levels of development in terms of their architecture, textiles, stock rearing, ceramics, gold and silver work, among other.

PeruThe Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) is a private, non-profit institution devoted to higher education. It was founded in 1917 and today we have a population of more than 24,000 students (in undergraduate, Master or Doctorate programs). We are among the 25 most important universities in Latin America, and occupy the first position in Peru. The quality of our education is at the core of the university and our students, researchers and professors are the proof of it. In relation to international agreements, PUCP has signed more than 200 of them with important Higher Education Institutions from all over the world. We have, in addition, more than 20 double degree programs, for undergraduate and graduate students, with Brazil, Spain, Italy, Germany, the United States and the Netherlands. PUCP is also member of fourteen university networks and associations. PUCP receives a large number of international students who come to study for a semester or for a year and sends students abroad to partner universities on a regular basis. Our University also hosts several special and summer programs.

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4 FIELD SCHOOL PROGRAM PERU

The Field School Program in Peru provides students with the opportunity to carry out practical work in research programs in the different fields of knowledge where PUCP is involved and which are directed by some of our most prestigious faculty members. This context allows participants to have an enduring, rich and fruitful academic and personal experience. In its ten years Field School Program has received around 300 students, increasing each year the number of participants. We are currently offering 6 different programs in 2014.

Field School Offers Participating students will have the opportunity to live a unique and intensive field and research experience and have a direct approach to local people, with respect and openness to intercultural learning.

By going through each one of the stages required to carry out the field research processes in a systematic manner, at the end of the program, students will have expanded their knowledge of Peruvian history and culture, learnt about the day-to-day activities of local inhabitants, improved their ability to analyze social aspects and contributed with the solution of necessities by applying theoretical concepts to local problems.

The experience gained in this course could be the basis for the development of future research topics at their universities

Field SchoolProgram


Dates Summer session: July 2014 Application Deadline: April 18th

Contact Piero Fioralisso [email protected]

PROGRAM DETAILS

Courses• Archaeology in San José de Moro

• Engineering and Ecological Technologies in Cusco

• Indigenous Rights and Legal Pluralism

• Linguistics Summer School

• Music, Fiestas and Rituals in Cusco

• Bioarchaeology in San Jose de Moro

Archaeology in

SAN JOSe de MORO


Credits 6

Professor Luis Jaime Castillo Butters (Ph.D.C. UCLA)

Dr. Luis Jaime Castillo, Vice Minister of Cultural Heritage and cultural industries of the Ministry of Culture of Peru, is a full professor and researcher of Archaeology Program at PUCP. He has been the co-editor of Latin American Antiquity and has written numerous articles and books on Moche and North Coast archaeology. He has been a visiting professor in numerous universities in Europe and North America, and Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. Since 1991 he has been director of the San José de Moro Archaeological Project, one of the largest and most active research projects in Peru, combining scientific research, teaching, and community development

Session Dates June 30th – July 31st

Cost Application fee: $ 150.00 Program fee: $ 3,750.00 $150 discount on the program fee for payments before April 1st

LocationSan Jose de Moro,Chepén, La Libertad.


Field Research will be held in the framework of the San José de Moro Archaeological Program (SJMAP), a program of excavations at the site of San José de Moro, a ceremonial and funerary complex located in the north coast of Peru.

This site is one of the only Moche cemetery currently under research, which has yield some of the most complex elite burial and ritual settings pertaining to a continuous, 1000 years occupation. Work in the site started in 1991, and is continued to date extending its activities to the northern Jequetepeque valley.

The SJMAP is led by Professor Luis Jaime Castillo (Ph.D.C. UCLA), and a team of young archaeologists from Peru, US and Europe. The Program has to date produced numerous publications and is recognized as one of the most outstanding research done in South America.

Field School students will assume responsibilities in the scientific work required by the archaeological excavations. Each excavation unit at SJMAP has a qualified professional who is in charge of directing and instructing students of that unit. Furthermore, participating students are also encouraged to make significant decisions which will lead to a better understanding of the archaeological events that take place at the research site.

By the end of the program, students will have gone through each one of the stages required to carry out archaeological excavation processes in a systematic manner. Since the beginning of our excavations, students have played an active and very important role in the achievement of our goals. Many of our former students now work on their own archaeological programs in other areas of Peru thanks to the experience they gained at PASJM.

COURSE description CONTENTS


Identify and recognize the diverse types of archaeological contexts. Digging strategies and use of different tools in the field. Learn the basics of archaeo-logical survey.

Learn and apply archaeological recording techniques in the field and in the laboratory. First stage: Field drawing, written records. Second Stage: Recording methods for special contexts. Photo recording. Introduction to the laboratory work.

Learn and apply field and laboratory recording techniques.

Application of the excavation and recording techniques previously learned in the field and the laboratory during the season. Field photography. Pho-togrammetry Workshop. Learn how to take pictures and process them in different software in order to acquire a 3D model. Learn the use and benefits of a handheld X-Ray Fluorescene for diffraction and elemental analysis of artifacts.

In addition to doing field archeology, the students will have the chance to visit some of the remarkable archeological sites of the region (Sipán, Túcume, Huaca de la Luna, Huaca el Brujo, Pacatnamú, Chan Chan).

Students will also be part of an “Experimental Archaeology exhibition”, where they will participate in manufacturing and firing of ceramic vessels, textile production using a traditional loom and the preparation of maize beer (chi-cha).

These activities will be complemented with the participation of the most recognized archaeologists, both domestic and foreign, who will show their most outstanding research in Andean archeology as well as with specialized artisans from the region.

Besides, students will have the opportunity to interact with the community through artistic workshops that will bring together field school students with local school kids

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COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES


LocationHuyro. La Convención, Cusco.

Technologies in Cusco

and Engineering

Ecological Credits 6

Professor Miguel Hadzich Marín

Miguel Hadzich Marin, Mechanical Engineer of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an MBA Energy & Environment at the University of Twente - Netherlands. Principal Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering PUCP in charge of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics Design and Equipment for Renewable Energies courses. He is currently the Coordinator of the Group of Rural Sector Support – GRUPO, and author of numerous research projects and publications in the field of renewable energies. He has been teaching more than 40 courses related with these topics. He has participated in more than 20 national and international seminars. He is the director of the AMERICA RENEWABLE magazine and has published several essays for The Green House PUCP publications. He has received the Special Award for Research by the CONCYTEC, the Energy Globe International Award 2007 and 2012 and other prizes related to Engineering and Ecology. He is consultant to various Ministries, International Cooperation Agencies and companies related to renewable energy.

Session DatesSession 1: June 1st – June 29th Session 2: June 30th – July 31st



The Engineering and Ecological Technologies course will be delivered entirely at Granja Ecológica PUCP in Huyro, which is aimed at the implementation, promotion and development of sustainable technologies for rural residents of Peru. The terrain of 6.5ha has a jungle ecosystem characterized by sunny days year-round,a very marked rainy season and diverse flora and fauna. It has allowed to make this place a space for the cultivation of different native species in their diverse varieties such as mango, tea, tubers, medlar, bamboo, cane, Andean fruit, coffee, cacao, banana, among others. In some cases, Granja Ecológica PUCP is the place of recovery and conservation of the species since they are gradually disappearing from the area due to different reasons. It is just 3 hours from the archaeological ruins of Machu Picchu, which can be also reached walking.

The course focuses on teaching clean technologies that allow to live comfortably on the farm as well as production technologies to take advantage of local resources. Clean technologies include basic needs such as water, sanitation, lighting, communication, among others, and the latter teach concepts ranging from sowing, cultivation and harvesting of certain tropical products (tea, coffee, and cacao) to the use of renewable energy to operate machines used in industrial processing.

The course consists of three modules: appropriate technologies, renewable energies and crop management. For participants’ learning, these three components will be articulated in such way that thematic coherence will be reflected in daily activities of the course. The modular themes will not be covered independently but in parallel and connected among them.

The methodology of this course is mostly based on the learning from practical experience and daily life within the Granja Ecológica PUCP. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to put into practice the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired, such as renewable energy, agriculture and permaculture in real situations that will enable them to contribute to a sustainable life.

COURSE DESCRIPTION CONTENTS


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The course will be held twice a year, in June and July. In June the proposed theme will be related to green technologies and the cycle of tea. In July, green technologies and the cycle of coffee.

June: Knowledge of tea and its traditional processing (harvest of tea, current firewood tea processing, activities of processes: withering, fermentation, drying, classification, and packing. everything will take place at the Herbi tea factory). Management of tea crops: Crop seedlings, harvesting and maintenance of plants.

July: Knowledge of coffee and traditional processing (harvest of coffee, current processing of solar drying processes activities: pulp removal, drying, packing. Management of coffee crops: Crop seedlings, harvesting and maintenance of plants.

June: Implementation of a solar tea factory: Processing of black and green tea in the new plant of linear solar parabolic concentrators, elaboration of different processes to differentiate the quality among them. Management of organic gardens (crop seedlings, harvesting and mainte-nance)

July: Implementation of a traditional coffee processing factory: coffee processing in Scheffler-type solar concentrator, elaboration of different processes to differentiate the quality among them. Management of organic gardens (crop seedlings, harvesting and maintenance)

Renewable energy: Solar water heating systems and electrification with solar energy systems (photovoltaic panels). Management of cacao crops (crop seedlings, harvesting and mainte-nance)

Renewable energy: Systems for rural electrification with waterwheels and rural pumping systems (norias, ram pumps, rope pumps, solar pumps). Management of Organic gardens (crop seed-lings, harvesting and maintenance).

The Granja Ecológica PUCP is located 3 hours from the ruins of Machu Picchu and 5 hours from the city of Cuzco. On weekends, students can visit the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the ruins of Ollantaytambo, Pisac, to learn about the Andean cultivation of corn, potato, yucca, etc. They can also visit villages of the jungle as Quillabamba and Echarate where they can find native products such as tea, coffee, cacao, coca, tobacco, unkucha etc. as well as the natural habitat of certain birds such as Andean cocks-of-the-rocks, toucans, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, parrots, etc


LocationLima and Madre de Dios, Peru (Amazonia)

Legal PluralismRights Indigenous

AND

Credits 3

Professor Raquel Z. Yrigoyen Fajardo

Lawyer (PUCP), PhD in Law by the University of Barcelona, Master in penal system and social problems (U. Barcelona), indigenous customary law specialist (UNAM-USAC), Fellow in comparative Indian Law (University of Oklahoma), Diploma in Anthropological Studies (PUCP).

OAS Interamerican Human Rights Commission Consultant to elaborate the report on indigenous women; former UN Consultant on indigenous rights, access to justice, legal pluralism and state´s reform. Visiting Professor at the universities of Carlos III of Madrid, the IISL Oñate, U. Deusto, FLACSO, Harvard; the International Training Centre of the ILO Turin. Professor of the Section of indigenous rights in the legal clinic (PUCP) and Coordinator of the Diplomas of International Studies on indigenous rights (PUCP-IISD).

Session Dates June 30th – July 14th



The course shall deal with the situation and rights of indigenous peoples in the region, from both theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary approach. The course shall enable students to visit an indigenous community of the Peruvian Amazon affected by gold mining, to know the issues and struggles of peoples directly to enforce its rights. This community won the first case before the Constitutional Court of Peru that recognizes the rights of self-determination, territory and autonomy.

This course, organized by PUCP and the Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad-IIDS, will follow the work experience of the Strategic Litigation on Indigenous Rights Section of the Clinic of the Law Faculty at PUCP. It comprises the International Exchange Program in multiculturalism, legal pluralism, and indigenous rights.

This course will provide students with tools to contextualize conflicts and issues currently suffered by indigenous peoples and for the understanding of cultural and legal pluralism situations within the context of globalization as well as develop capabilities in order to learn the management of the corpus of international law on the rights of indigenous peoples.

The field trip shall make it possible to see directly the lifestyle of the community and the impacts of the gold mining activity in its territory besides the manner how the community fought to win the case before the Constitutional Court of Peru.

These activities shall be aimed at developing different types of skills being organized in three types of methodologies: Lectures, Workshops and Field work



Lectures on Cultural and legal pluralism. Policies applied to indigenous peoples throughout the History of the Americas. Globalization and contem-porary issues of indigenous peoples in Latin America. International Law on the rights of indigenous peoples and defense mechanisms. Case study of the native community Tres Islas (Three Islands), formed by the Shipibo and Ese´eja, peoples and its struggle to defend its territory and autonomy from mining.

Field Work: Field trip to the native community Tres Islas in Tambopata, Madre de Dios, in the Peruvian Amazon.

The trip shall also allow students participate in some forums or public pre-sentations on indigenous rights in the region.

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LocationLima - Ucayali

Summer School Linguistics

Credits 6

Professor Roberto Zariquiey

Roberto Zariquiey is PhD in Linguistics by the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) and professor and researcher at PUCP. His specialty focuses on the documentation and description of Amazonian languages, in particular of the linguistic family cloth, but has also done fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes. He has published books and scientific articles in Peruvian and international journals

.Session Dates July 07 – Aug 03

Cost Application fee: US$ 150.00 Program fee: US$ 3,750.00 $150 discount on the program fee for payments before April 1st


The Summer School of Linguistics PUCP of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú is a space for learning and exchange among students, professors and researchers from Peru and other countries and speakers of indigenous languages in our country, all aimed at the training for the documentation and study of the Peruvian linguistic diversity.

It is a program that addresses the various areas involved in the process of documenting and describing a little-known language. The program is complemented with field trips in which students are linked to current research projects of the university and collaborate on them from well-defined tasks related to the different facets of the linguistic research such as the collection, processing and analysis of data.

In addition, the program includes the use of digital audio and video recording equipment, the analysis of linguistic structures of different levels (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), the theory of transcription, the design of alphabets and the use of linguistic software.

All this takes place within a framework that approaches the fieldwork practice from a reflective and critical perspective, and aims at giving an overview of the Peruvian linguistic diversity, trough Amazon and Andean linguistics, sociolinguistics and language planning classes.

COURSE description

CONTENTS


Linguistic history of the Andes. Structural diversity of the Peruvian Amazonian languages. Policies and education in indigenous languages in Peru: prob-lems and perspectives.

The linguist in the field I: ethical and logistical issues. The linguist in the field II: methodology to collect data (words and texts). The linguist in the field III: analysis of data (phonetics-phonology, morphology, syntax). The linguist returns to field: data processing and use of linguistic software

Field work (Communities of Chachi Bai, Ucayali)

Data processing (cities of Pucallpa, Ucayali)

During their stay in the field, students can take walks through the primary forest surrounding Chachi Bai, where they will find birds and animals in their natural state. The trip to Chachi Bai takes two days by boat and goes through areas of great beauty where the Amazon river habitat can be seen in all its richness and diversity.

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LocationLima - Cusco

Rituals

in cusco

Music

Fiestas AND

Credits 6

Professor Manuel Ráez Retamozo

Manuel Ráez did his undergraduate and graduate studies in anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he is currently professor at the Department of Social Sciences. He is also a researcher, member of the Institute of Ethnomusicology for over 25 years. He is author of the books “En los dominios del Cóndor: fiestas y música tradicional en el valle del Colca”, “Melodías de los valles Sagrados: fiestas y danzas tradicionales” y “Dioses de la Quebradas: fiestas y rituales en la sierra alta de Lima”. He is author as well, of several articles in books and academic journals about ethnomusicology and andean heritage of Peru and Ecuador. He has a remarkable audiovisual collection.

Session Dates July 1st – Aug 3rd

Cost Application fee: US$ 150.00 Program fee: US$ 3,750.00 $150 discount on the program fee for payments before April 1st


This course is for students interested in approaching Andean popular culture through music and its various ceremonial and ritual contexts. To achieve this purpose a major cultural region of Peru will be visited: The Sacred Valley of the Incas, an area of ancient Inca and colonial cultural tradition.

The Sacred Valley is located in the Cuzco region at 940 miles southeast of Lima. It is named as such for being the preferred residence valley of the Incas because of its high level of productivity of corn, the favorite food of the Andean gods, and its friendly climate if compared with the cold city of Cuzco, the ancient imperial capital. Here we will observe the famous festival of the “Mamacha Carmen” which is held in Pisac, where the participants represent many ethnic dances, of social and mythical origins, accompanied by Indian and mestizo musical ensembles. In the city of Cuzco, we will visit the museum of musical instruments, and we have reserved two days off for students interested to visit the citadel of Machu Picchu and other historical attractions of the region.

After the field trip, students will systematize their information and data in the university lab for their personal use and to preserve a copy in the documentary and audiovisual archive of the Institute of Ethnomusicology (IDE) of the university. The experience gained by students in this course has been the basis for the development of future research topics at their universities.



Introduction to Peruvian History. Music and popular urban culture. Musical genres and instruments in Peru. Afro-Peruvian and Creole music. Techniques and methods for the audiovisual recording. The purpose of cultural research.

Trip to Cuzco. Festivals and rituals in the Peruvian Andes. Dances and social identities.Registration of ethnomusical data. Techniques of fieldwork

The Festival of Mamacha Carmen in Pisac: Typical dances at the Festival. Music and dance of Pisac. Traditional mass in Quechua. Traditional indig-enous fair in Pisac.

The Festival of Mamacha Carmen in Pisac: Music and dance of Pisac. Visit to local parades and festivity godfathers. Procession through streets of Pisac. Guerrilla of Qollas dancers in the square. Contest of dances in the square. Procession of return of the Virgin of Ayñas. Farewell rites in the square.

Altitudinal ecological areas and Inca terraces. Indigenous agricultural rites in Quiquijana. Organize, catalog and deposit of the audiovisual material obtained at the Festival of Mamacha Carmen in Pisac.

During the first week in Lima students will have the chance to visit the Mu-seum of Anthropology and Archaeology and a Creole Place. In their staying in Cusco, students will be able to visit the Museum of musical instruments of Cuzco as well as some artisan workshops of musical instruments. Visits to some remarkable archaeological sites as the Inca laboratory of Moray and Salt pans at Maras and the temples of Andahuaylillas and Huaro are included. Trip to Machu Picchu is optional and we can help students with the arrangements.

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LocationSan Jose de Moro. Chepen, La libertad.

San Jose de MoroinBioarchaeology

Credits 6

Professor Elsa Tomasto

Elsa Tomasto Cagigao is a Bioarchaeologist and Forensic Anthropologist with a Masters degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She is also graduated in Archaeology by the same university and has also followed short courses on Bioarchaeology and Paleopathology with Dr. Jane Buikstra and Dr. Donald Ortner. Her work with archaeological human remains includes the analysis of coastal ancient Peruvian populations such as Paracas, Nasca and Moche and her studies had been published in scientific journals and edited volumes. She has been Chief Curator of the Human Remains Collection of the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History, consistent in more than 15,000 items covering a period beginning 10,000 years ago until Inca Times.

Session Dates June 30th – July 31st



As part of the PASJM Field School, the Bioarchaeology Field School students will have the unique experience of taking part in the investigation process at one of the most complex and important archaeological sites on the Peruvian coast. Investigations at San Jose de Moro, headed by Dr. Luis Jaime Castillo, have recovered one of the largest collections of burials dug in Peru, which allow us to address the customs and traditions of the Moche, as well as their political and social complexity.

Through a dynamic combination of lectures, laboratory practices with archaeological human osteology, field archaeological work and personal investigation, the Bioarchaeology Field School students will improve their knowledge and skills for the interpretation of archaeological and forensic bones.



General introduction. Bone and related tissues. The skull: parts, sutures, frontal, parietal bones, occipital, temporal bones. Preventive conservation of human remains. The sphenoid, small bones of the skull and face, maxilla, mandible and zigomatic bone. The human dentition.

The ribs and vertebrae, the sternum. The scapular and pelvic girdles, the limbs. Sex estimation, stature. Age estimation

Paleopathology and trauma. Excavation techniques

Biological distance. Forensic anthropology. The study of mummies. DNA, Chemical studies in bone

In addition to doing field archeology, the students will have the chance to visit some of the remarkable archeological sites of the region (Sipán, Túcume, Huaca de la Luna, Huaca el Brujo, Pacatnamú, Chan Chan).

Students will also be part of an “Experimental Archaeology exhibition”, where they will participate in manufacturing and firing of ceramic vessels, textile production using a traditional loom and the preparation of maize beer (chi-cha).

These activities will be complemented with the participation of the most recognized archaeologists, both domestic and foreign, who will show their most outstanding research in Andean archeology as well as with specialized artisans from the region.

Besides, students will have the opportunity to interact with the community through artistic workshops that will bring together field school students with local school kids

ScheduleWeek 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4


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