Listening to Brian Moser and Donald Tayler During the conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology celebrated in Bloomington at Indiana University in November 2019, I was introduced to Andrea Zarza, the curator of the World and Traditional Music of the British Library. Our point of connection...
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Brasil Abroad: indigenous peoples, film, conservation 3-week Summer Field School Brasil Abroad is a 6-credit, 3-week course inviting you to partner with Mebêngôkre-Kayapó communities as you learn about Indigenous Peoples, Film, and Conservation in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. In a unique partnership between universities...
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~KIRAÑIA (Long Flutes) Juan Castrillón, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 ~KIRAÑIA (Long Flutes) dramatizes how a pair of long flutes sounds like, how a Cubeo Emi-Hehenewa indigenous community of Northwestern Amazon makes it, and how community members make sense of it. The film came out of my ethnographic fieldwork...
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Amazonimations Camilla Morelli, University of Bristol, 2019 Amazonimations is a collection of three animated short films (total length: 7 minutes) that were scripted, narrated and illustrated by different generations of Matses people in Peru – and produced in collaboration with an indigenous artist and a professional animator. The...
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Amahuaca construyendo territorio Claudia Arteaga, Scripps College, 2018 Amahuaca construyendo territorio trata sobre los territorios de las comunidades de San Martín y San Juan, pertenecientes al pueblo amahuaca de la selva peruana, como espacios disputados. En éstos, sus habitantes invocan recuerdos que los conectan al lugar donde viven,...
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In Search of a Bororo Mr. Right Flavia Kremer Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, 2018 In Search of a Bororo Mr. Right is an experimental "rom com", in that it seeks to introduce the romantic comedy genre as a novel tool for an ethnographic analysis...
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