Fernando
Urbina Rangel

Born in Pamplona (Colombia) in 1939. Teacher since 1963 in the Department of Philosophy of the National University of Colombia, where he graduated in Philosophy and Letters with a Specialty in Philosophy that same year. In “retirement” since April 2004, although he continues to be involved in various activities. Within the same university, he complemented his initial training with several seminars (8), and various courses in Prehistory and History of America, Linguistics, Anthropology, Ethnography and History of Art. He has also been a professor at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidad Libre, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Gran Colombia, Universidad del Magdalena and Universidad de Nariño.

His studies on Greek and Eastern mythology led him to research Amerindian mythologies. Five decades of field work in areas of the Amazon, Orinoquia, Chocó, Guajira, Nariño and Serranía del Perijá, have allowed him to advance in the knowledge of some current aboriginal cultures, knowledge of the rock art of the eastern part of the country and natural environments. To date, professor and researcher Fernando Urbina Rangel is the author of around 100 articles and seven books.

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Fernando
Urbina Rangel

Born in Pamplona (Colombia) in 1939. Teacher since 1963 in the Department of Philosophy of the National University of Colombia, where he graduated in Philosophy and Letters with a Specialty in Philosophy that same year. In “retirement” since April 2004, although he continues to be involved in various activities. Within the same university, he complemented his initial training with several seminars (8), and various courses in Prehistory and History of America, Linguistics, Anthropology, Ethnography and History of Art. He has also been a professor at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidad Libre, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Gran Colombia, Universidad del Magdalena and Universidad de Nariño.

His studies on Greek and Eastern mythology led him to research Amerindian mythologies. Five decades of field work in areas of the Amazon, Orinoquia, Chocó, Guajira, Nariño and Serranía del Perijá, have allowed him to advance in the knowledge of some current aboriginal cultures, knowledge of the rock art of the eastern part of the country and natural environments. To date, professor and researcher Fernando Urbina Rangel is the author of around 100 articles and seven books.

PUBLISHED BOOKS:

Mitología Amazónica: Cuatro mitos de los Murui-Muinanes.
Ed. ORAM, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 1982.

Amazonia: Naturaleza y Cultura.
Ed. Banco de Occidente, Bogotá, 1986 (en gran formato)

Las Hojas del Poder.
Ed. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 1992.

Palabra Obra (Libro de artista, caja con 18 láminas y alrededor de 30 poemas),
ediciones en gran formato con la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos -OEI-, Bogotá, 1995.

Poemas – Antología. Colección «Viernes de poesía»,
Departamento de Literatura, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2003.

Dïïjoma -El hombre·serpiente·águila- Mito uitoto de la Amazonia.
Convenio Andrés Bello, 2004.

Las palabras del origen. Breve compendio de la Mitología de los Uitotos.
Ministerio de Cultura – Colombia, 2010.

PUBLISHED BOOKS:

Mitología Amazónica: Cuatro mitos de los Murui-Muinanes.
Ed. ORAM, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 1982.

Amazonia: Naturaleza y Cultura.
Ed. Banco de Occidente, Bogotá, 1986 (en gran formato)

Las Hojas del Poder.
Ed. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 1992.

Palabra Obra (Libro de artista, caja con 18 láminas y alrededor de 30 poemas),
ediciones en gran formato con la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos -OEI-, Bogotá, 1995.

Poemas – Antología. Colección «Viernes de poesía»,
Departamento de Literatura, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2003.

Dïïjoma -El hombre·serpiente·águila- Mito uitoto de la Amazonia.
Convenio Andrés Bello, 2004.

Las palabras del origen. Breve compendio de la Mitología de los Uitotos.
Ministerio de Cultura – Colombia, 2010.

Professor Fernando Urbina has given about forty poetry recitals. It has 25 individual photographic exhibitions (with numerous texts), five of them have had national and international itinerary; He has participated with photographs and texts (in conjunction with other authors), in numerous national and international exhibitions (e. g, at Expo Lisboa 98). The direction, creation and presentation of two series of television and radio programs (40 and 75 sessions, respectively, during 1974 and 1975), attached to their chairs about the Myth (“Myth and indigenous pharmacopoeia”, “Myth and Amerindian thought”, “Myth, rite and Amazonian rock art”) have made possible the diffusion of their research. For the Philosophy Degree (Universidad Nacional de Colombia ) supported courses and seminars especially on Philosophical Anthropology, Plato, Presocratic Philosophers, First Philosophies and Indigenous Thought.

He received an honorable mention in the “1993 World Photography Contest”, sponsored by UNESCO. He has directed two dozen undergraduate and graduate theses (Philosophy, Anthropology, Literature), several of them qualified as meritorious (Philosophy, Anthropology, Literature) and one laureate (Anthropology). In 1999 he founded and coordinated (until 2002) in the Department of Philosophy of the National University of Colombia the «Group of Studies on Abyayalense Thought (Amerindian)»; During the same year, he founded and coordinated the “The Corner of the Poem” Program at the National University. He was an attached professor of Visual Animation at the Department of Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia. He obtained the “Medal of Merit”, awarded by the National University of Colombia in 1995. In 2012, the Association of Retired Teachers of the National University awarded him the “Alfonso López Pumarejo” award, for his scientific and academic merits.

He has published around 2,000 photographs in different media. He has been interviewed on cultural radio and television programs about thirty times. Based on some of his research, the film director Roberto Triana made the fictional documentary with staging “Between the Eagle and the Anaconda”, of the State Television Program “Dialogues of the Nation” (Ministry of Culture -Inravisión- Convention Andrés Bello), with a duration of 55 minutes. The director Andrés Pineda was interested in his research to work on two feature films; the first, about one of the ethnographic texts included in the book «The leaves of power»; the second, on the «Chronicle of Grandfather Gaïduama, A rite to make peace».