Visitors A film by Juan Castrillón Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology, 2022 In Visitors, blackness enfolds transformation, augmentation and mediation between languages, media and forms of existence, even if it may become occlusive, a flicker noisy image fluttering as fireflies, a labyrinthine trap to mislead the observational style sedimented in...
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Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology Society for Ethnomusicology The Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology (JAVEM) is a newly established, bi-annual, peer-reviewed streaming journal of ethnomusicological film and video sponsored by the Society for Ethnomusicology. JAVEM aims to advance the use of multimedia as a method for exploring music and its entanglements, and...
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Persistence of Good Living A'uwe Life Cycles and Well-Being in the Central Brazilian Cerrados By James R. Welch The University of Arizona Press, 2023 Persistence of Good Living explores how cultural understandings of well-being often differ from scientific measures such as health, happiness, and affluence. For the Indigenous A’uwẽ (Xavante)...
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Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance Edited by Fernando Santos Granero and Emanuele Fabiano The University of Arizona Press, 2023 Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia explores how urban life has long intrigued Indigenous Amazonians, who regard cities as the locus of both extraordinary power and...
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Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios Universidade Federal do Amazonas UFAM Fourteenth SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Member of the Peru's Local Organizing Committee Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios is a doctoral student in Social Anthropology at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) and a member of the...
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Thiago Mota Cardoso Universidade Federal do Amazonas UFAM Fourteenth SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Member of the Brazil's Local Organizing Committee Thiago Mota Cardoso is Professor at the Department of Anthropology (DAN) and at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) of the...
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