Gonzalo Iparraguirre

Gonzalo Iparraguirre is a postgraduate researcher at Institute of Anthropological Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires. He completed his licentiate in anthropology in 2011 at University of Buenos Aires and his doctorate at the same University in 2015. His main research theme is focused to the comparative cross-cultural study of different temporalities, rhythms of life and social dynamics. Since 2008 he work with a team of physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists in the development of an interdisciplinary program in CEITT (Research Center for Time and Temporality). Its main purpose is to achieve simultaneous studies on social and philosophical studies of time (temporality) and physical and computational studies (time) that can be applied to other research groups interested. In 2011 he published his first book, entitled “Anthropology of Time. The Mocoví Case”, which presented a comparative study between western and indigenous temporality. His current postdoctoral research is the implementation of anthropological methodologies to innovation processes of social and technological development. During 2015 will publish his second book based on his PhD thesis, entitled “Rhythmics of Culture”.