~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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SALSA Scholarship The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) is an international society, bringing together specialists who live in Latin America, Europe, North America, and elsewhere. In these pages, you can consult several sources resulting from the active scholarship of the SALSA members. The Bennington...
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AmaSonic AmaSonic is a meeting-point for accessing links of interest, news and events about sound, spoken word and musical practices in Lowland South America. This section presents a glance into the work of SALSA members who have studied vocal, sonic, aural and performative interactions, and introduces...
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Poster presentations SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference 2019 Poster session 1 Friday, 28 June, 9:30-11:10 WMW, Ground floor (location 5) Chair: Diana Rosas Riaño, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sarunas Jomantas. Interethnic Enjoyment, Myth and Materialism Social antagonisms within capitalist societies are steeped between a ‘logic of fantasy’ mystifying objective appearances, and a capitalist ‘logic of...
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Juan Carlos Castrillón University of Pennsylvaria Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2018-2022 Juan Carlos Castrillón pursues doctoral studies in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania. His intellectual agenda explores music and indigenous analytics about listening, bodies, recordings and sound archives. His work is primarily ethnographic, conducting fieldwork among...
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