CUHSO journal was founded in September 1984 under the patronage of the Centre for Regional Social Research (CISRE). In its initial form, the journal was focused on the disciplinary field of anthropology and edited by the Centre for Sociocultural Studies (CES) from 1998 to 2007.  Since the second semester of 2007, CUHSO has become a biannual publication edited by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the UC Temuco and welcomes work from all disciplines in the schools of Social Sciences and Humanities.